Through age-long silence, in Brittany.

III

The high-flung roofs in lichen decked,

Yellow and green and golden-brown,

With tiny flowers and weeds o'er-flecked,

Shelter the cottages of the town;

While up from the chimneys, silently,

Floats the thin, blue smoke of Brittany.

IV

A gleam of brass through the open door,