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Come Prudence you have done enough to day	A
The worst is over and some hours of play	A
We both have earned even more than rest from toil	B
Our minds need laughter as a spent lamp oil	B
And after their long fast a recompense	C
How sweet the evening is with its fresh scents	D
Of briar and fern distilled by the warm wind	E
How green a robe the rain has left behind	E
How the birds laugh What say you to a walk	F
Over the hill and our long promised talk	F
About the rights and wrongs of infancy	G
Our patients are asleep dear angels she	G
Holding the boy in her ecstatic arms	H
As mothers do and free from past alarms	H
The child grown calm If we an hour or two	I
Venture to leave them 'tis but our hope's due	I
My tongue is all agog to try its speed	J
To a new listener like a long stalled steed	J
Loosed in a meadow and the Forest lies	K
At hand the theme of its best flatteries	K
See Prudence here your hat where it was thrown	L
The night you found me in the house alone	L
With my worst fear and these two helpless things	K
Please God that worst has folded its black wings	K
And we may let our thoughts on pleasure run	M
Some moments in the light of this good sun	M
They sleep in Heaven's guard Our watch to night	N
Will be the braver for a transient sight	N
The only one perhaps more fair than they	A
Of Nature dressed for her June holiday	A
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This is the watershed between the Thames	K
And the South coast On either hand the streams	K
Run to the great Thames valley and the sea	K
The Downs which should oppose them servilely	B
Giving them passage Who would think these Downs	K
Which look like mountains when the sea mist crowns	K
Their tops in autumn were so poor a chain	O
Yet they divide no pathways for the rain	O
Nor store up waters in this pluvious age	P
More than the pasteboard barriers of a stage	P
The crest lies here From us the Medway flows	K
To drain the Weald of Kent and hence the Ouse	K
Starts for the Channel at Newhaven Both	Q
These streams run eastward bearing North and South	R
But to the West the Adur and the Arun	O
Rising together like twin rills of Sharon	O
Go forth diversely this through Shoreham gap	S
And that by Arundel to Ocean's lap	S
All are our rivers by our Forest bred	T
And one besides which with more reverend heed	J
We need to speak for her desert is great	U
Beyond the actual wealth of her estate	U
For Spenser sang of her the River Mole	B
And Milton knew her name though he poor soul	B
Had never seen her as I think being blind	E
And so miscalled her sullen Others find	E
Her special merit to consist in this	K
A maiden coyness and her shy device	K
Of mole like burrowing And in truth her way	A
Is hollowed out and hidden from the day	A
Under deep banks and the dark overgrowth	Q
Of knotted alder roots and stumps uncouth	V
From source to mouth and once at Mickleham	W
She fairly digs her grave in deed and name	W
And disappears There is an early trace	K
Of this propensity to devious ways	K
Shown by the little tributary brook	X
Which bounds our fields for lately it forsook	X
Its natural course to burrow out a road	Y
Under an ash tree in its neighbourhood	Y
But whether this a special virtue is	K
Or like some virtues but a special vice	K
We need not argue This at least is true	I
That in the Mole are trout and many too	I
As I have often proved with rod and line	O
From boyhood up blest days of pins and twine	O
How many an afternoon have our hushed feet	Y
Crept through the alders where the waters meet	Y
Mary's and mine and our eyes viewed the pools	K
Where the trout lay poor unsuspecting fools	K
And our hands framed their doom while overhead	Y
His orchestra of birds the backbird led	Y
In those lost days no angler of them all	B
Could boast our cunning with the bait let fall	B
Close to their snouts from some deceiving coigne	O
Or mark more notches when we stopped to join	O
Our fishes head to tail and lay them out	Y
Upon the grass and count our yards of trout	Y
'Twas best in June with the brook growing clear	Z
After a shower as now In dark weather	A2
It was less certain angling for the stream	W
Was truly sullen'' then so deep and dim	W
'Tis thus in mountain lakes as some relate	Y
Where the fish need the sun to see the bait	Y
The fly takes nothing in these tangled brooks	K
But grief to fishermen and loss of hooks	K
And all our angling was of godless sort	Y
With living worm and yet we loved the sport	Y
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But wait This path will lead us to the gill	B
Where you shall see the Mole in her first rill	B
Ere yet she leaves the Forest and her bed	Y
Is still of iron stone which stains her red	Y
Yet keeps her pure and lends a pleasant taste	Y
To her young waters as they bubble past	Y
You hear her lapping round the barren flanks	K
Of these old heaps we call the Cinder banks ''	-
Where our forefathers forged their iron ore	B2
When Paul's was building Now the rabbits bore	B2
In the still nights beneath these ancient heaps	K
A very honeycomb See where she peeps	K
The infant river You could hardly wet	Y
Your ankles in her midmost eddy yet	Y
She has a pretty cunning in her look	X
Mixed with alarm as in her secret nook	X
We find her out half fugitive half brave	C2
A look that all the Forest creatures have	D2
Let us away Perhaps her guilelessness	K
Is troubled at a guilty human face	K
Mine Prudence not your own I know a dell	B
Knee deep in fern hard by the very cell	B
For an elf hermit Here stag mosses grow	E2
Thick as a coverlet and fox gloves blow	E2
Purple and white and the wild columbine	O
And here in May there springs that thing divine	O
The lily of the valley only here	F2
Found in the Forest blossoming year on year	Z
A place o'ershadowed by a low crowned oak	G2
The enchanted princess never had been woke	G2
If she had gone to sleep in such a spot	Y
In spite of fortune Why a corpse forgot	Y
Might lie with eyes appealing to the sky	H2
Unburied here for half a century	K
And this the woodcocks as I take it knew	O
Who stayed to breed here all the summer through	O
When other birds were gone I flushed a pair	I2
On the longest day last year the nest was there	I2
And found some egg shells chipped among the moss	K
The sight is rarer now than once it was	K
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There We have gathered breath and climbed the hill	B
And now can view the landscape more at will	B
This is the Pilgrim road a well known track	J2
When folk did all their travelling on horseback	J2
Now long deserted yet a right of way	A
And marked on all our maps with due display	A
Beneath this yew tree which perhaps has seen	O
Our fathers riding to St Thomas' shrine	O
For this was once the way of pilgrimage	K2
From the south west for all who would engage	P
Their vows at Canterbury we will sit	Y
As doubtless they too sat and rest a bit	Y
I love this solitude of birch and fern	O
These quags and mosses and I love the stern	O
Black yew trees and the hoary pastures bare	I2
Or tufted with long growths of withered hair	I2
And rank marsh grass I love the bell heath's bloom	W
And the wild wealth which passionate Earth's womb	W
Throws in the Forest's lap to clothe unseen	O
Its ancient barrenness with youth and green	O
I love the Forest 'tis but this one strip	L2
Along the watershed that still dares keep	M2
Its title to such name Yet once wide grown	O
A mighty woodland stretched from Down to Down	O
The last stronghold and desperate standing place	K
Of that indigenous Britannic race	K
Which fell before the English It was called	Y
By Rome Anderida '' in Saxon Weald ''	-
Time and decay and Man's relentless mood	Y
Have long made havock of the lower wood	Y
With axe and plough and now of all the plain	O
These breadths of higher ground alone remain	O
In token of its presence Who shall tell	B
How long in these lost wilds of brake and fell	B
Or in the tangled groves of oak below	E2
Gathering his sacred leaf the mistletoe	E2
Some Druid priest forgotten and in need	Y
May here have kept his rite and owned his creed	Y
After the rest For hardly yet less rude	Y
Here later dwelt that patron of our wood	Y
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