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Thread #168430 Message #4123325
Posted By: The Sandman
17-Oct-21 - 04:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
Countryman - a poem by George Mackay Brown
Countryman
Come soon. Break from the pure ring of silence, A swaddled wail
You venture With jotter and book and pencil to school
An ox man, you turn Black pages on the hill
Whisper a vow To the long white sweetness under blessing and bell
A full harvest, Utterings of gold at the mill
Old yarns, old malt, beside the hearth, A breaking of ice at the well
Be silent, story, soon. You did not take long to tell