And the thoughts that rise in my crazed head

When the cloud is low and the wind’s dead.

Where you see only clay and stones

I see swords and blanching bones. . . .

But I’ll leave you now—it’s gone six,

And the smoke is curling over the ricks.

And it’s hardly like that the land-shark

Will trouble the furrows after dark.

[A CRADLE-SONG]