The Somme Valley, June, 1917

"The blue sky arches wide     From hill to hill;     The little grasses stand     Upright and still.     Only these stones to tell     The de"

"Come girl, and embrace     And ask no more I wed thee;     Know then you are sweet of face,     Soft-limbed and fashioned lovingly;     Must"

"As I went down the Baldon lane,     Alone I went, as oft I went,     Weighing if it were loss or gain     To give a maidenhead.     I met, jus"

"They come fluttering helpless to the ground     Like wreaths of wind-caught snow,     Uttering a plaintive, chirping sound,     And rise and fa"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"