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THE MOOR

The world's gone forward to its latest fair

And dropt an old man done with by the way,

To sit alone among the bats and stare

At miles and miles and miles of moorland bare

Lit only with last shreds of dying day.

Not all the world, not all the world's gone by;

Old man, you're like to meet one traveller still,

A journeyman well kenned for courtesy