Puck of Pook's Hill - Rudyard Kipling - Books -  - 9798592628863 - January 11, 2021
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Puck of Pook's Hill

Puck's SongSee you the dimpled track that runs, All hollow through the wheat?O that was where they hauled the gunsThat smote King Philip's fleet!See you our little mill that clacks, So busy by the brook?She has ground her corn and paid her taxEver since Domesday Book. See you our stilly woods of oak, And the dread ditch beside?O that was where the Saxons broke, On the day that Harold died!See you the windy levels spreadAbout the gates of Rye?O that was where the Northmen fled, When Alfred's ships came by!See you our pastures wide and lone, Where the red oxen browse?O there was a City thronged and known, Ere London boasted a house!And see you, after rain, the traceOf mound and ditch and wall?O that was a Legion's camping-place, When Caesar sailed from Gaul!And see you marks that show and fade, Like shadows on the Downs?O they are the lines the Flint Men made, To guard their wondrous towns!Trackway and Camp and City lost, Salt Marsh where n

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 11, 2021
ISBN13 9798592628863
Pages 138
Dimensions 178 × 254 × 8 mm   ·   254 g
Language English  

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