A Pagan
Ford Madox Hueffer
1873 to 1939
Bright white clouds and april skies
May make your heart feel bonny,
But summer's sun and flower's growth
Will fill my hives with honey,
And mead is sweet to a pugging tooth
When it's dark at four and snow clouds rise.
Owl light's sweet if the moon be bright,
And trysting's no bad folly,
But give me mead and a warm hearthstone,
And a cosy pipe and Dolly
—And Dolly to devil a mutton bone
When it's dark at four of a winter's night.
Ford Madox Hueffer's A Pagan
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