Than ever poet from his heartstrings wrung:

Because all wisdom and all gramarye

Are writ in fields, O very plain to see.

[pg 31]

“It was all in the Black Countree”

It was all in the Black Countree,

What time the sweet o’ the year should be,

I saw a tree, all gaunt and grey,

As mindful of a winter’s day:

And that a lonely bird did sit