Уолтер де ла Мар Тогда

Уолтер де ла Мар   Тогда









    Walter De La Mare  Then

    Twenty, forty, sixty, eighty
        A hundred years ago,
    All through the night with lantern bright
        The Watch trudged to and fro,
    And little boys tucked snug abed
        Would wake from dreams to hear -
    'Two o' the morning by the clock,
        And the stars a-shining clear!'
    Or, when across the chimney-tops
        Screamed shrill a North-East gale,
    A faint and shaken voice would shout,
        'Three! And a storm of hail!'


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