Twenty men crossing a bridge, Into a village, Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges, Into twenty villages, Or one man Crossing a single bridge into a village. This is old song That will not declare itself . . . Twenty men crossing a bridge, Into a village, Are Twenty men crossing a bridge Into a village. That will not declare itself Yet is certain as meaning . . . The boots of the men clump On the boards of the bridge. The first white wall of the village Rises through fruit-trees. Of what was it I was thinking? So the meaning escapes. The first white wall of the village . . . The fruit-trees . . | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SESTINA OF THE TRAMP ROYAL by RUDYARD KIPLING THOSE VARIOUS SCALPELS by MARIANNE MOORE THE LEAF by ANTOINE VINCENT ARNAULT ECCE IN DESERTO by HENRY AUGUSTIN BEERS SPRING NIGHT by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 12. THE BOOK AND THE RING by ROBERT BROWNING |