Excellent work Arthur. Thanks.
CW, Mary :O)
--- Arthur <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dry stone walls
>
> Harsh as the dialect, hewn from millstone grit
> or limestone they piece and parcel-out the shires.
> Wind-fingers probe between stones' ill-fit
> Moss-sodden, lush, under dripping birches,
> or pale as a picked bone, isled with lichen,
> they stride up flanks of fells, true to contour.
> The sinuous mass and loom and sweep of them
> bars the land like silent sentries, grim and dour.
>
> Some mammoth greed conceived this lift and haul
> heft and shift of a task, that bewilders,
> humbles us, such toil and craft in each wall.
> Sack-draped backs hunched under drench of centuries,
> men and stone, bent to deny, heaved like moles,
> to shape these monumental barriers.
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