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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHILTERNS, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember once a glorious thing
Subject(s): Chiltern Hills, England
First Line: I remember once a glorious thing
Subject(s): Chiltern Hills, England
I remember once a glorious thing
Crowned the season in my wandering time.
Through the year I went from earliest Spring
Hither, thither, weaving prose and rhyme,
Like a gleeman of the former age.
Sound and colour were my pensioners;
Constant on my passionate pilgrimage
Love attended me, and friends of hers,
Life and Death besides. But one day, late
Roaming in the Chilterns, want of will
Irked me, and the impotence of Fate-
Something lacking in the World, until
Bluff November in the coppice near
Loud on orient horns an onset wound,
While the larks that through the golden year
Garlanded the air with dazzling sound,
Surged upon the tempest's deafening cry-
Crests of foam about the ocean driven,
Lightning scribbled on a thund'rous sky,
Tongues of flame upon the top of heaven!
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