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EXMOOR VERSES: 1. VASHTI'S SONG by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH

Poet Analysis

First Line: OVER THE RIM OF THE MOOR
Last Line: O MY HEART, WHERE LIES THAT LAND?
Subject(s): IGNORANCE; LONGING; DULLNESS; STUPDITY;
OVER the rim of the moor,
And under the starry sky,
Two men came to my door
And rested them thereby.

Beneath the bough and the star,
In a whispering foreign tongue
They talked of a land afar
And the merry days so young.

Beneath the dawn and the bough
I heard them arise and go—
And my heart it is aching now
For the more it will never know.

Why did they two depart
Before I could understand?
Where lies that land, O my heart—
O my heart, where lies that land?



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