And tell me if thou knowest them all!

O son, O son, we are blithe and fain;

But the autumn drought, and the winter rain,

The frost and the snow, and St. David's wind,

All these that were, time out of mind,

All these a many times have been

Since thou the Upland Town hast seen."

Then never a word spake Goldilocks

Till they came adown from the wheaten shocks.

And there beside his love he stood