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a first poem as remarkable for its technical finish as for its graphic, imaginative realism. He followed this, a few months later, with 'An Airman's Dream,' which was, as he says in a scribbled note in his note-book, written after he had been reading Rupert Brooke's 'GranchesterGrantchester [sic].' From earliest childhood, he adds, 'I had sent myself to sleep and endured dull sermons by thinking of my house and its surroundings,' and it is a vision of these that comes to him again in the air:

When I am wearied through and through,

and all the things I have to do

are senseless, peevish little things,

my mind escapes on happier wings

to an old house that is mine own,

lichen-kissed and overgrown;

with gables here and gables there

and tapered chimneys everywhere,

with millstone hearths for burning logs,

and kettles singing from the dogs,