<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Exmoor Verses</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I. VASHTI'S SONG</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Over the rim of the Moor,<br>And under the starry sky,<br>Two men came to my door<br>And rested them thereby.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beneath the bough and the star,<br>In a whispering foreign tongue,<br>They talked of a land afar<br>And the merry days so young!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beneath the dawn and the bough<br>I heard them arise and go:<br>And my heart it is aching now<br>For the more it will never know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why did they two depart<br>Before I could understand?<br>Where lies that land, O my heart?<br>-O my heart, where lies that land?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II. SATURN</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>From my farm, from hèr farm<br>Furtively we came.<br>In either home a hearth was warm:<br>We nursed a hungrier flame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our feet were foul with mire,<br>Our faces blind with mist;<br>But all the night was naked fire<br>About us where we kiss'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To her farm, to my farm,<br>Loathing we returned;<br>Pale beneath a gallow's arm<br>The planet Saturn burned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III. DERELICTION</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>O'er the tears that we shed, dear<br>The bitter vines twist,<br>And the hawk and the red deer<br>They keep where we kiss'd:<br>All broken lies the shieling<br>That sheltered from rain,<br>With a star to pierce the ceiling,<br>And the dawn an empty pane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thro' the mist, up the moorway,<br>Fade hunters and pack;<br>From the ridge to thy doorway<br>Happy voices float back…<br>O, between the threads o' mist, love,<br>Reach your hands from the house.<br>Only mind that we kiss'd, love,<br>And forget the broken vows!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Arthur+Quiller-Couch">Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519114" data-title="Exmoor Verses de Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch" data-description="I. VASHTI'S SONG Over the rim of the Moor, And under the starry sky, Two men came to my door And rested them thereby. Beneath the bough and the star, In a whispering foreign tongue, They talked of a land afar And the merry days so young! Benea..."></div> </div> </div>

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