Excerpt from Firdausi in Exile: And Other Poems

Dedication to Austin Dobson.

Neighbour of the near domain,

Stay awhile your passing wain!

Though to give is more your way,

Take a gift from me to-day!

From my homely store I bring

Signs of my poor husbanding; -

Here a spike of purple phlox,

Here a spicy bunch of stocks,

Mushrooms from my moister fields,

Apples that my orchard yields, -

Nothing, for the show they make,

Something, - for the donor"s sake;

Since for ten years we have been

Best of neighbours ever seen;

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