Straight strength pitched into the surliness of the ditch,

A soul you have—strength has always delicate secret reasons.

Your soul is a dull question.

I do not care for your strength, but for your stiff smile at Time—

A smile which men call rust.

Gordon Bottomley

NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS

MY MOON

My moon was lit in an hour of lilies;

The apple-trees seemed older than ever.