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...round the castle.
Many princes
tried to get through the brambles
for they had heard much of Briar Rose
but they had not scoured their tongues
so they were held by the thorns
and thus were crucified.
In due time
a hundred years passed
and a prince got through.
The briars parted as if for Moses
and the prince found the tableau intact.
He kissed Briar Rose
and she woke up crying:
Daddy! Daddy!
Presto! She's out of prison!
She married the prince
and all went well
except for the f...Read more of this...

...l of freedom

How the bounds may grow

Slowly slowly as I go.



“Rag-bone rag-bone

White donkey stone”

Auntie Nellie scoured

Her door step, polished

The brass knocker

Till I saw my face

Bunched like a fist

Complete with goggles

Grinning like a monkey

In a mile of mirrors.





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Every door step had a stop

A half-stone iron weight

To hold it back and every 

Step was edged with donkey

Stone in yellow or white

From the ragman or the potman

With his covered ca...Read more of this...

...them pass
 With rapt and eager air,
As fit a seeming lad and lass
 As ought to pair.

For twenty years I went away
 And scoured the China Sea,
Then homing came and found that they
 Were still sweet company.
The Doctor and the Priest had banned
 Three times their wedding ties,
Yet they were walking hand in hand,
 Love in their eyes.

And then I went away again
 For years another score,
And sailored all the Spanish Main
 Ere I returned once more;
And now I see them pass my gate...Read more of this...

...ever-fancied arrow, made 
The long way smoke beneath him in his fear; 
At which her palfrey whinnying lifted heel, 
And scoured into the coppices and was lost, 
While the great charger stood, grieved like a man. 

But at the point of noon the huge Earl Doorm, 
Broad-faced with under-fringe of russet beard, 
Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey, 
Came riding with a hundred lances up; 
But ere he came, like one that hails a ship, 
Cried out with a big voice, 'What, is he dead...Read more of this...

...nriver and beyond. Sunlight 
dumped on standing and moving 
lines of freight cars, new fields 
of bright weeds blowing, scoured 
valleys, false mountains of coke 
and slag. At the ends of sight 
a rolling mass of clouds as dark 
as money brings the weather in....Read more of this...

...The pit where I believed him caught. 

But yet he lived and laughed, and preached, 
And worked—as only players can: 
He scoured the shrine that once was home
And kept himself a clergyman. 

The clockwork of his cold routine 
Put friends far off that once were near; 
The five staccatos in his laugh 
Were too defensive and too clear;

The glacial sermons that he preached 
Were longer than they should have been; 
And, like the man who fashioned them, 
The best were too divinely ...Read more of this...

...men
And scrawled on the hill-side.

And when he came to White Horse Down
The great White Horse was grey,
For it was ill scoured of the weed,
And lichen and thorn could crawl and feed,
Since the foes of settled house and creed
Had swept old works away.

King Alfred gazed all sorrowful
At thistle and mosses grey,
Then laughed; and watched the finches flash,
Till a rally of Danes with shield and bill
Rolled drunk over the dome of the hill,
And, hearing of his harp and skill,
The...Read more of this...

...any keel come near!

 Wrenched as the lips of thirst,
 Wried, dried, and split and burst,
Bone-bleached my decks, wind-scoured to the graining;
 And jarred at every roll
 The gear that was my soul
Answers the anguish of my beams' complaining.

 For life that crammed me full,
 Gangs of the prying gull
That shriek and scrabble on the riven hatches!
 For roar that dumbed the gale,
 My hawse-pipes guttering wail,
Sobbing my heart out through the uncounted watches!

 Blind in the...Read more of this...

...I strayed
     Far eastward, in Glenfinlas' shade
     Nor strayed I safe, for all around
     Hunters and horsemen scoured the ground.
     This youth, though still a royal ward,
     Risked life and land to be my guard,
     And through the passes of the wood
     Guided my steps, not unpursued;
     And Roderick shall his welcome make,
     Despite old spleen, for Douglas' sake.
     Then must he seek Strath-Endrick glen
     Nor peril aught for me again.'
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...conies keen, 
 And squirrels of the tree, 
And many a member seldom seen 
 Of Nature's family. 

The ireful winds that scoured and swept 
 Through coppice, clump, and dell, 
Within that holy circle slept 
 Calm as in hermit's cell. 

Then the priest bent likewise to the sod 
 And thanked the Lord of Love, 
And Blessed Mary, Mother of God, 
 And all the saints above. 

And turning straight with his priceless freight, 
 He reached the dying one, 
Whose passing sprite had been ...Read more of this...

...und every hostel full, and everywhere 
Was hammer laid to hoof, and the hot hiss 
And bustling whistle of the youth who scoured 
His master's armour; and of such a one 
He asked, 'What means the tumult in the town?' 
Who told him, scouring still, 'The sparrow-hawk!' 
Then riding close behind an ancient churl, 
Who, smitten by the dusty sloping beam, 
Went sweating underneath a sack of corn, 
Asked yet once more what meant the hubbub here? 
Who answered gruffly, 'Ugh! the spar...Read more of this...

...This empty street, this sky to blandness scoured,
This air, a little indistinct with autumn
Like a reflection, constitute the present --
A time traditionally soured,
A time unrecommended by event.

But equally they make up something else:
This is the furthest future childhood saw
Between long houses, under travelling skies,
Heard in contending bells --
An air lambent with adult enterprise,

And on ...Read more of this...

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