Straining, yearning, for the vision

Of the doom and the decision—

Haig is moving!

THE GUNS IN SUSSEX

Light green of grass and richer green of bush

Slope upwards to the darkest green of fir.

How still! How deathly still! And yet the hush

Shivers and trembles with some subtle stir,

Some far-off throbbing like a muffled drum,

Beaten in broken rhythm oversea,