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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SLOW TO COME, QUICK A-GONE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! There's a house that I do know
Last Line: Wi' aïr-birds to ha' vled.
Subject(s): Houses; Memory
First Line: Ah! There's a house that I do know
Last Line: Wi' aïr-birds to ha' vled.
Subject(s): Houses; Memory
Ah! there's a house that I do know
Besouth o' yonder trees,
Where northern winds can hardly blow
But in a softest breeze.
An' there woonce sounded zongs an' teäles
Vrom vaïce o' maïd or youth,
An' sweeter than the nightèngeäle's
Above the copses lewth.
How swiftly there did run the brooks,
How swift wer winds in flight,
How swiftly to their roost the rooks
Did vlee o'er head at night.
Though slow did seem to us the peäce
O' comèn days a-head,
That now do seem as in a reäce
Wi' aïr-birds to ha' vled.
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