Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE FOLD, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE


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First Line: A bare, crooked wisp, that the thin hollows hold
Last Line: And house me from the wind like any sheep?
Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses


A BARE, crooked wisp, that the thin hollows hold,
A mile past village chimneys, does it stand,
Wind-bitten in the alway windy land;
Bare, crooked, bitten by the wind -- and yet a fold --
And there the shepherd, at the wane of light,
Drives all his master's sheep; aye, in the hour,
When that the sky is like a crocus flower,
And folk do make them ready for the night.
So gentle is he with each little one,
And with the old, so careful and so slow --
They are withal so safe where they do keep --
What better than to find, at set of sun,
A shepherd, a walled space where I could go,
And house me from the wind like any sheep?






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