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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HOUNDS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: Far off a lonely hound
Last Line: The unneighboured and uncomforted cold sea.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: Far off a lonely hound
Last Line: The unneighboured and uncomforted cold sea.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
FAR off a lonely hound
Telling his loneliness all round
To the dark woods, dark hills, and darker sea;
And, answering, the sound
Of that yet lonelier sea-hound
Telling his loneliness to the solitary stars.
Hearing, the kennelled hound
Some neighbourhood and comfort found,
And slept beneath the comfortless high stars.
But that wild sea-hound
Unkennelled, called all night all round—
The unneighboured and uncomforted cold sea.
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