the ballad of the white horse-第12章
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But away in the eastern places
The wind of death walked high;
And a raid was driven athwart the raid;
The sky reddened and the smoke swayed;
And the tall grey horse went by。
The gates of the great river
Were breached as with a barge;
The walls sank crowded; say the scribes;
And high towers populous with tribes
Seemed leaning from the charge。
Smoke like rebellious heavens rolled
Curled over coloured flames;
Mirrored in monstrous purple dreams
In the mighty pools of Thames。
Loud was the war on London wall;
And loud in London gates;
And loud the sea…kings in the cloud
Broke through their dreaming gods; and loud
Cried on their dreadful Fates。
And all the while on White Horse Hill
The horse lay long and wan;
The turf crawled and the fungus crept;
And the little sorrel; while all men slept;
Unwrought the work of man。
With velvet finger; velvet foot;
The fierce soft mosses then
Crept on the large white commonweal
All folk had striven to strip and peel;
And the grass; like a great green witch's wheel;
Unwound the toils of men。
And clover and silent thistle throve;
And buds burst silently;
With little care for the Thames Valley
Or what things there might be
That away on the widening river;
In the eastern plains for crown
Stood up in the pale purple sky
One turret of smoke like ivory;
And the smoke changed and the wind went by;
And the King took London Town。
End