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    Country Sentiment
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    Country Sentiment

    By Robert Graves

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2001
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    Robert Graves

    Robert Graves (Indianapolis, IN) is the owner of Fox Hollow Farm. Since learning of the farm’s past, Robert has devoted himself to understanding the tragic events that took place there.

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      Country Sentiment - Robert Graves

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Country Sentiment, by Robert Graves

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      Title: Country Sentiment

      Author: Robert Graves

      Release Date: August 16, 2008 [EBook #1418]

      Last Updated: February 4, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COUNTRY SENTIMENT ***

      Produced by Sue Asscher, and David Widger

      COUNTRY SENTIMENT

      by Robert Graves

      To Nancy Nicholson

      Note: Some of the poems included in this volume have appeared in The New Statesman, The Owl, Reveille, Land and Water, Poetry, and other papers, English and American.

      Robert Graves.

      Harlech,

      North Wales.

      CONTENTS

      A FROSTY NIGHT.

      A SONG FOR TWO CHILDREN.

      DICKY.

      THE THREE DRINKERS.

      THE BOY OUT OF CHURCH.

      AFTER THE PLAY.

      SONG: ONE HARD LOOK.

      TRUE JOHNNY.

      THE VOICE OF BEAUTY DROWNED.

      THE GOD CALLED POETRY.

      ROCKY ACRES.

      ADVICE TO LOVERS.

      NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S FALL.

      ALLIE.

      LOVING HENRY.

      BRITTLE BONES.

      APPLES AND WATER.

      MANTICOR IN ARABIA.

      OUTLAWS.

      BALOO LOO FOR JENNY.

      HAWK AND BUCKLE.

      THE ALICE JEAN.

      THE CUPBOARD.

      THE BEACON.

      POT AND KETTLE.

      GHOST RADDLED.

      NEGLECTFUL EDWARD.

      THE WELL-DRESSED CHILDREN.

      THUNDER AT NIGHT.

      TO E.M.—A BALLAD OF NURSERY RHYME.

      JANE.

      VAIN AND CARELESS.

      NINE O'CLOCK.

      THE PICTURE BOOK.

      THE PROMISED LULLABY.

      RETROSPECT

      RETROSPECT: THE JESTS OF THE CLOCK.

      HERE THEY LIE.

      TOM TAYLOR.

      COUNTRY AT WAR.

      THE LEVELLER.

      HATE NOT, FEAR NOT.

      A FIRST REVIEW.

      A FROSTY NIGHT.

              Mother

           Alice, dear, what ails you,

             Dazed and white and shaken?

           Has the chill night numbed you?

             Is it fright you have taken?

              Alice

           Mother, I am very well,

             I felt never better,

           Mother, do not hold me so,

             Let me write my letter.

              Mother

           Sweet, my dear, what ails you?

              Alice

           No, but I am well;

           The night was cold and frosty,

           There's no more to tell.

              Mother

           Ay, the night was frosty,

             Coldly gaped the moon,

           Yet the birds seemed twittering

             Through green boughs of June.

           Soft and thick the snow lay,

             Stars danced in the sky.

           Not all the lambs of May-day

             Skip so bold and high.

           Your feet were dancing, Alice,

             Seemed to dance on air,

           You looked a ghost or angel

             In the starlight there.

           Your eyes were frosted starlight,

           Your heart fire and snow.

           Who was it said, I love you?

              Alice

             Mother, let me go!

      A SONG FOR TWO CHILDREN.

           "Make a song, father, a new little song,

              All for Jenny and Nancy."

            Balow lalow or Hey derry down,

              Or else what might you fancy?

            Is there any song sweet enough

              For Nancy and for Jenny?

             Said Simple Simon to the pieman,

              Indeed I know not any.

           "I've counted the miles to Babylon,

              I've flown the earth like a bird,

            I've ridden cock-horse to Banbury Cross,

              But no such song have I heard."

           "Some speak of Alexander,

              And some of Hercules,

            But where are there any like Nancy and Jenny,

              Where are there any like these?"

      DICKY.

              Mother

           Oh, what a heavy sigh!

             Dicky, are you ailing?

              Dicky

           Even by this fireside, mother,

             My heart is failing.

           To-night across the down,

             Whistling and jolly,

           I sauntered out from town

             With my stick of holly.

           Bounteous and cool from sea

             The wind was blowing,

           Cloud shadows under the moon

             Coming and going.

           I sang old roaring songs,

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