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I. Only a man harrowing clods / In a slow silent walk / With an old horse that stumbles and nods / Half asleep as they stalk.
II. Only thin smoke without flame / From the heaps of couch-grass; / Yet this will go onward the same / Though Dynasties pass.
III. Yonder a maid and her wight / Come whispering by: / War's annals will cloud into night / Ere their story die.