[River.II.[vii]][28th July 1971ff]

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28.7.71.[and later][continued]

River.  II.

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                                                        In my middle-age

        Youth joined me,

        Crystal water from the chalk:

        ‘A child on wind-swept fields I played,

        And among the trees I wandered:

        And I sang in the hills;

        I grew with the wind in my blood,

        And the rain fed me;

        But the red sun sank in the West,

        And chill mists rose from the water;

        Light faded; cold tightened;

        And love was stifled by fellowship:

        I went, weeping in grey lands.

      ‘Times change: Love I found

       In the shadows of that mound;

       Time passes: Love I lost

       In the deep World sharply tossed.’

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