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The Herb-Gatherer

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A grey, bald hillside, bristling here and there     With leprous-looking grass, that, knobbed with stones,     Slopes to a valley where a wild stream moans,     And every bush seems tortured to despair     And shows its teeth of thorns as if to tear     All things to pieces: where the skull and bones     Of some dead beast protrude, like visible groans,     From one bleak place the winter rains washed bare.     Amid the desolation, in decay,     Like some half-rotted fungus, grey as slag,     A hut of lichened logs; and near it, old,     Unspeakably old, a man, the colour of clay,     Sorting damp roots and herbs into a bag     With trembling hands purple and stiff with cold.

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