TO CLINTON BALMER
AND THE DEAR MEMORY OF
JAMES HAMILTON HAY
FOR THE SUMMER OF 1900
AT CARTMEL
IN the lost Valley all is still
To-day: upon the stony hill
The heat of the late afternoon
Settles in coppery haze: and soon
A voice not known to me will call
Silent obedient cows to stall,
In the same immemorial cry
From century to century
Changing but by the uttering voice.
And in a while a little noise
(Hou! Hou!) far off near Newton Head
Will tell that at another stead
The browsing cattle pause and turn
Unwilling heads to seem to learn
That which they know, and move in train
Now milking-time has come again.
Summer 1921—Spring 1922.
PERSONS:
| Nan | } | |
| Bet | } | |
| Ursel | } | Kitchen and Dairy Girls. |
| Maudlin | } | |
| Lib | } | |
| Roger, a Carter. | ||
| Mease, a Cowherd. | ||