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Title: England over Seas

Author: Lloyd Roberts

Release Date: January 24, 2005 [eBook #14782]

Language: English

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ENGLAND OVER SEAS

by

LLOYD ROBERTS

London
Elkin Mathews, Cork Street

M CM XIV

TO

HOPE

CONTENTS

ENGLAND'S FIELDS
THE MADNESS OF WINDS
YOUNG BLOOD
THE HOMESTEADER
HUSBANDS OVER SEAS
THE COUNTRY GOES TO TOWN
THE TRAIL FROM NAPOLI
THE CHANGING YEAR
RUNNERS OF THE RAIN
SPRING MADNESS
ONE MORNING WHEN THE RAIN-BIRDS CALL
SPRING'S SINGING
THE FLUTES OF THE FROGS
MISS PIXIE
A-FISHING
THE BERRY PICKERS
THE WOOD TRAIL
THE FRUIT-RANCHER
FROM EXILE
THE WARM GREEN SEA
THERE'S MUSIC IN MY HEART TO-DAY
AUGUST ON THE RIVER
THE WIND TONGUES
MUSK-RATS
THE KILL
ON THE MARSHES
THE SCARLET TRAILS
AT THE YEAR'S END
WINTER WINDS
DEAD DAYS
THE WINTER HARVEST
FLOWERS OF THE SKY

England's Fields

England's cliffs are white like milk,
But England's fields are green;
The grey fogs creep across the moors,
But warm suns stand between.
And not so far from London town, beyond the brimming street,
A thousand little summer winds are singing in the wheat.

Red-lipped poppies stand and burn,
The hedges are aglow;
The daisies climb the windy hills
Till all grow white like snow.
And when the slim, pale moon slides up, and dreamy night is near,
There's a whisper in the beeches for lonely hearts to hear.

Poppies burn in Italy,
And suns grow round and high;
The black pines of Posilipo
Are gaunt upon the sky--
And yet I know an English elm beside an English lane
That calls me through the twilight and the miles of misty rain.

Tell me why the meadow-lands
Become so warm in June;
Why the tangled roses breathe
So softly to the moon;
And when the sunset bars come down to pass the feet of day,
Why the singing thrushes slide betwe