Out! out!... No fear of risk?...

II

First, past the fellside, where the bramble-hollow

Whines, wolf-like, with the wind; gaunt wind, that grieves

Through the one sickly ash, whose withered leaves

Worry and mutter, shriveled as the lips

Of bent hags kissing. Then—the slope that whips

The face with brush; and where a gnarled vine slips,

Snake-like, from off a rock, that seems to wallow,—

One mass of briers,—a humpbacked hulk of hair,