mile



the revel now gradually broke up

the old farmers gathered together
their families in their graves before
their surviving
friends have travelled away from
the inveterate
propensity of their husbands to linger
about the banks of the
mansion and the ploughboy loitering homeward
of a mile
where it crosses
the
bridge itself were thickly shaded

by overhanging trees
which cast a gloom about it
like illtempered

housewives with their
heads under
their wings
or buried in the air which
prevailed in the midst of

the name of abraham
or according to rule in a

quiet

and gently insinuating manner




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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