The Penny Whistle + 

The new moon hangs like an ivory bugle + 

In the naked frosty blue; + 

And the ghylls of the forest, already blackened + 

By Winter, are blackened anew. + 

The brooks that cut up and increase the forest, + 

As if they had never known + 

The sun, are roaring with black hollow voices + 

Betwixt rage and a moan. + 

But still the caravan-hut by the hollies + 

Like a kingfisher gleams between: + 

Round the mossed old hearths of the charcoal-burners + 

First primroses ask to be seen. + 

The charcoal-burners are black, but their linen + 

Blows white on the line; + 

And white the letter the girl is reading + 

Under that crescent fine; + 

And her brother who hides apart in a thicket, + 

Slowly and surely playing + 

On a whistle an olden nursery melody, + 

Says far more than I am saying. + 