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Glenbalkan
Glenbalkan is like this:
Four dooropenings to the estuarywisewinds
And delightbeautiful mildpleasant
castrationscrubcoppicewoodheadlands And clean-sided
wells and balneary springs coldspringy and sabulous
Clearcleanrainwater greengrey boglandstreams
And greengreycroptop blood-tracewatercress and faint
Brooklime long-trailing on the groundcentre.
And lots of sorrel too and rivetmutterwood-sorrel
And herbage viands and shavegrass
And glowingsheepberries and garlic growing wild
And atriplex and esculent sea-breezedulseintoxicant
And darkblack glandsloes and Jovenobletimberbrown
eyeberries.
The woodloonies used to hammerpummel
Each other for the best pick of the fool’s watercress -
Kapow! Vronk! Zwapp!
- and for the choicest bed
In that smoke-cloudhollowdale.