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NO-MAN'S WOOD by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHALL I HAVE JEALOUS THOUGHTS TO NURSE
Last Line: CLEAN THROUGH THE HEART OF NO-MAN'S WOOD.
Subject(s): ENVIRONMENT; FORESTS; TREES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ECOLOGY; CONSERVATION; WOODS;

Shall I have jealous thoughts to nurse,
When I behold a rich man's house?
Not though his windows, thick as stars,
Number the days in every year;
I, with one window for each month,
Am rich in four or five to spare.

But when I count his shrubberies,
His fountains there, and clumps of trees,
Over the palings of his park
I leap with my primeval blood;
Down wild ravines to Ocean's rocks,
Clean through the heart of No-man's Wood.



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