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 MONADNOC FROM AFAR

SEPTEMBER

the turbulent beauty

Of a gusty Autumn day,

Poet on a sunny headland

Sighed his soul away.

Farms the sunny landscape dappled,

Swandown clouds dappled the farms,

Cattle lowed in mellow distance

Where far oaks outstretched their arms.

Sudden gusts came full of meaning,

All too much to him they said,

Oh, south winds have long memories,

Of that be none afraid.