Poems (Tennyson, 1843)/Volume 1/Song—The Owl

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166487Poems (Tennyson, 1843)/Volume 1 — Song—The OwlAlfred Tennyson

SONG.—THE OWL.

When cats run home and light is come,
And dew is cold upon the ground,
And the far-off stream is dumb,
And the whirring sail goes round,
And the whirring sail goes round;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.

When merry milkmaids click the latch,
And rarely smells the new-mown hay,
And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch
Twice or thrice his roundelay.
Twice or thrice his roundelay:
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.