Plain I hear the streamlet babble,

Smell the tar on country fences:

Down the road Miss Grey from Marlett

Skirts the fox-frequented thicket,

In her belt a rose of scarlet,

In her eyes the love of cricket.

There's my mother with her ponies

Underneath Sir Toby's beeches,

Pulling up to share with cronies

News of grapes and plums and peaches: