Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STRANGE PERSPECTIVE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN


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First Line: Happy the herd is that in the heat of summer
Last Line: Hustling the staid herd into hazardous shadows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund


Happy the herd is that in the heat of summer
Wades in the waters where the willows cool them,
From murmuring midday that singes the meadow,
And turns very tansies, fire-flowers, tindery.
Naked at noon there, naughtiness too wantons,
From bank bold jumping, and bough down dandling,
Of chimed hour chainless and churlish duty.
I see the glad set, who am far off sentenced;
Their lily limbs dazzle over long dry pastures;
And rude though ridges are risen between us,
Miles of mountains morosely upthrusting,
And dim and downward my gaze now droops,
My pool beyond pasture by a strange perspective
Is plain, and plunging its playmates gleam,
Hustling the staid herd into hazardous shadows.





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