The blackbird’s leisured song this April evening
lifts the spirit high:
its timbre liquid and its intervals exact,
delivered from the top branch of the oak tree
to the open sky.
A mood is fickle, but a melody is fact.
‘Theologically, Jerusalem is nonsense, total rot.’
And did those feet…? The answer’s clear to Morley. ‘They did not.’
Read A Song for England
The blackbird’s leisured song this April evening
lifts the spirit high:
its timbre liquid and its intervals exact,
delivered from the top branch of the oak tree
to the open sky.
A mood is fickle, but a melody is fact.
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