Long Will. Florence Converse Converse
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Florence Converse
Long Will
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066218713
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
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The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman.
B. Passus XII.
I
The Lark and the Cuckoo
HERE were a many singers on the hill-top. They twittered in the gorse; they whistled from the old hawthorn tree, amid the white may; they sprang to heaven, shaking off melody in their flight; and one, russet-clad, lay at his length against the green slope, murmuring English in his throat.
'T was in a May morning, he said, 'T was in a May morning,—and he loitered over the words and drew out the morwening very long and sweet. Then, because there was a singing mote of a lark in the misty blue above him, his own song dropped back into his breast, and he waited.
He was young and lank, and his hair was yellow-red. He followed the lark up into the bright heaven with wide, unblinking eyes. The bird fell to earth; somewhere unseen a cuckoo chanted. Three sheep on the