Of brakes of bramble, tousled into shreds,

And tangled wastes of briars—tumbling beds

For winds to toss on.—Once, across a farm,

Unsteadily, a lamp towards unseen sheds,—

Like the blurred glow of some ungainly worm,—

A watery wisp of light crawled trailing through the storm.

III

Then swallowing blackness of the night; and thin

The shrewd rain beat me and the rough limbs whipped

Of dwarfed, uneasy beeches. There within