Farewell

Chapter 18: THE WIND’S GRIEF

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About This Book

A varied collection of poems and short prose pieces that celebrate the Cotswold and Gloucestershire countryside while exploring love, longing, and spiritual yearning. The poems range from concise nature lyrics—observing rivers, hedges, birds, and seasonal light—to sonnets and free-verse meditations that ask for vision, joy, and fellowship. Several pieces foreground homesickness and the solace of ritual and local customs, others offer wry or reflective commentary on mortality, vanity, and daily life. Prose poems and songs intersperse formal verse, producing a sequence that alternates celebratory rural description, quiet grief, religious petition, and gentle humour.

THE WIND’S GRIEF

The wind is grieving. Over what old woe

Howls it as though

Its very heart would break?—

The roving wind who merrily did make

A song all day in woods and meadows gay

Grieves in the night.

Is it for olden evil it hath done

’Neath moon and sun

Since first it roved the world?

Brave trees uprooted, ships and sailors hurled

To stormy death? or for the passing breath

Of flowers bright?