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up before the farmers
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up before the farmers on a sort of lark warble of a wander walking in the dark distant is the village lamps & candles burn grocers green are dozing vicars toss - & turn stars above are winking blink & twinkle so artemis is sparkles 'til the cockerels crow scramble up a hillock squawk upon a field ghosts within the gloaming whistle in a weald moths are butterflying sleeping are the bees phantoms on the pastures whispers in the trees bats upon the breezes scattered as the sky trudging in the sunless plod the dog & i howling with the owlets sing a badger hymn trotting with the foxes dancing in the dim up before the farmers on a sort of lark warble of a wander walking in the dark ...