Exmoor Verse: Vashti's Song

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Title:     Exmoor Verse: Vashti's Song
Author: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch [More Titles by Quiller-Couch]

Over the rim of the Moor,
And under the starry sky,
Two men came to my door
And rested them thereby.

Beneath the bough and the star,
In a whispering foreign tongue,
They talked of a land afar
And the merry days so young!

Beneath the dawn and the bough
I heard them arise and go:
And my heart it is aching now
For the more it will never know.

Why did they two depart
Before I could understand?
Where lies that land, O my heart?
--O my heart, where lies that land?

[The end]
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch's Poem: Exmoor Verse: Vashti's Song

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