A Sower

With sanguine looks

And rolling walk

Among the rooks

He loved to stalk,

While on the land

With gusty laugh

From a full hand

He scattered chaff.

Now that within

His spirit sleeps

A harvest thin

The sickle reaps;

But the dumb fields

Desire his tread,

And no earth yields

A wheat more red.

Collected Poems 1897 - 1907, by Henry Newbolt · 第 69 / 86 题