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Farewell

Chapter 19: A WINDY NIGHT
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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.

A WINDY NIGHT

The rain is done; and a great wind,
Filling the hollow night,
He shouts like a boy in an archway
And whistles with all his might.
He has blown the sky empty,
Except for the little stout
Stars, and they are flickering
As if they might go out.
All the black trees are crying;
The night is full of noise;
They are shouting under the arch of heaven
Like a school of rowdy boys.