GREEN gathering of summer-mantled trees

Against a hush of turquoiser-torpid sky,

And underfoot pale cow-wheat,—yellow rattle,—

A tall-stemmed toadflax, more yellow than the twain,

Trim whorled with leaves of smoothly glaucous hue.

A footway skirts the flanges of each bole

And roughens with the jut and twist of root

And darkly wanders through embodied shade

As it might lead to unimagined core,

Stripped self, essential Form of woodland ness.