So, envious climbing shrubs would mount to rest

And peer from their spread boughs; wide they wave, looking

At the muleteers who whistle on their way,

To the merry chime of morning bells, past all

The little smoking cots, mid fields and banks

And copses bright in the sun. My spirit wanders:

Hedgerows for me—those living hedgerows where

The bushes close and clasp above and keep

Thought in—I am concentrated—I feel;

But my soul saddens when it looks beyond: