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A Long Vacation Pastoral	A
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Ducite ab urbe domum mea carmina ducite Daphnin	B
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Bright October was come the misty bright October	C
Bright October was come to burn and glen and cottage	D
But the cottage was empty the matutine deserted	E
Who are these that walk by the shore of the salt sea water	C
Here in the dusky eve on the road by the salt sea water	C
Who are these and where it is no sweet seclusion	B
Blank hill sides slope down to a salt sea loch at their bases	F
Scored by runnels that fringe ere they end with rowan and alder	C
Cottages here and there outstanding bare on the mountain	B
Peat roofed windowless white the road underneath by the water	C
There on the blank hill side looking down through the loch to the ocean	B
There with a runnel beside and pine trees twain before it	G
There with the road underneath and in sight of coaches and steamers	H
Dwelling of David Mackaye and his daughters Elspie and Bella	I
Sends up a column of smoke the Bothie of Tober na vuolich	J
And of the older twain the elder was telling the younger	C
How on his pittance of soil he lived and raised potatoes	K
Barley and oats in the bothie where lived his father before him	L
Yet was smith by trade and had travelled making horseshoes	M
Far in the army had seen some service with brave Sir Hector	C
Wounded soon and discharged disabled as smith and soldier	C
He had been many things since that drover school master	C
Whitesmith but when his brother died childless came up hither	C
And although he could get fine work that would pay in the city	N
Still was fain to abide where his father abode before him	L
And the lasses are bonnie I'm father and mother to them	O
Bonnie and young they're healthier here I judge and safer	C
I myself find time for their reading writing and learning	P
So on the road they walk by the shore of the salt sea water	C
Silent a youth and maid and elders twain conversing	P
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This was the letter that came when Adam was leaving the cottage	D
If you can manage to see me before going off to Dartmoor	C
Come by Tuesday's coach through Glencoe you have not seen it	G
Stop at the ferry below and ask your way you will wonder	C
There however I am to the Bothie of Tober na vuolich	J
And on another scrap of next day's date was written	B
It was by accident purely I lit on the place I was returning	P
Quietly travelling homeward by one of these wretched coaches	Q
One of the horses cast a shoe and a farmer passing	P
Said Old David's your man a clever fellow at shoeing	P
Once just here by the firs they call it Tober na vuolich	J
So I saw and spoke with David Mackaye our acquaintance	R
When we came to the journey's end some five miles farther	C
In my unoccupied evening I walked back again to the bothie	S
But on a final crossing still later in date was added	T
Come as soon as you can be sure and do not refuse me	N
Who would have guessed I should find my haven and end of my travel	A
Here by accident too in the bothie we laughed about so	U
Who would have guessed that here would be she whose glance at Rannoch	J
Turned me in that mysterious way yes angels conspiring	P
Slowly drew me conducted me home to herself the needle	A
Which in the shaken compass flew hither and thither at last long	P
Quivering poises to north I think so But I am cautious	V
More at least than I was in the old silly days when I left you	W
Not at the bothie now at the changehouse in the clachan	B
Why I delay my letter is more than I can tell you	W
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There was another scrap without or date or comment	X
Dotted over with various observations as follows	K
Only think I had danced with her twice and did not remember	C
I was as one that sleeps on the railway one who dreaming	P
Hears thro' his dream the name of his home shouted out hears and hears not	Y
Faint and louder again and less loud dying in distance	R
Dimly conscious with something of inward debate and choice and	Z
Sense of claim and reality present anon relapses	Q
Nevertheless and continues the dream and fancy while forward	A2
Swiftly remorseless the car presses on lie knows not whither	C
Handsome who handsome is who handsome does is more so	U
Pretty is all very pretty it's prettier far to be useful	A
No fair Lady Maria I say not that but I will say	B2
Stately is service accepted but lovelier service rendered	A2
Interchange of service the law and condition of Beauty	N
Any way beautiful only to be the thing one is meant for	C
I I am sure for the sphere of mere ornament am not intended	T
No nor she I think thy sister at Tober na vuolich	J
This was the letter of Philip and this had brought the Tutor	C
This is why Tutor and pupil are walking with David and Elspie	C2
When for the night they part and these once more together	C
Went by the lochside along to the changehouse near in the clachan	B
Thus to his pupil anon commenced the grave man Adam	D2
Yes she is beautiful Philip beautiful even as morning	P
Yes it is that which I said the Good and not the Attractive	E2
Happy is he that finds and finding does not leave it	G
Ten more days did Adam with Philip abide at the changehouse	B2
Ten more nights they met they walked with father and daughter	C
Ten more nights and night by night more distant away were	C
Philip and she every night less heedful by habit the father	C
Happy ten days most happy and otherwise than intended	T
Fortunate visit of Adam companion and friend to David	E
Happy ten days be ye fruitful of happiness Pass o'er them slowly	N
Slowly like cruse of the prophet be multiplied even to ages	B2
Pass slowly o'er them ye days of October ye soft misty mornings	B2
Long dusky eves pass slowly and thou great Term time of Oxford	A2
Awful with lectures and books and Little goes and Great goes	B2
Till but the sweet bud be perfect recede and retire for the lovers	B2
Yea for the sweet love of lovers postpone thyself even to doomsday	B2
Pass o'er them slowly ye hours Be with them ye Loves and Graces	B2
Indirect and evasive no longer a cowardly bather	C
Clinging to bough and to rock and sidling along by the edges	B2
In your faith ye Muses and Graces who love the plain present	F2
Scorning historic abridgement and artifice anti poetic	P
In your faith ye Muses and Loves ye Loves and Graces	B2
I will confront the great peril and speak with the mouth of the lovers	B2
As they spoke by the alders at evening the runnel below them	O
Elspie a diligent knitter and Philip her fingers watching	P

Arthur Hugh Clough

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