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Rh The downs have another hold on this poet; not only are they good to course at a long swinging run, they have preserved huge stones, earthworks and chiselled flints that tell of prehistoric lives.

STONES

Against this wet, bleak, strenuous background of his predilection the young man's thought is astonishingly keen, fresh and mature.

"I," he says in the title poem, Marlborough,

Here he introduces as an image "Jacob's return from exile," and ends it: Rh