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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Song: ‘The feathers of the willow’

Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900)

THE FEATHERS of the willow

Are half of them grown yellow

Above the swelling stream;

And ragged are the bushes,

And rusty now the rushes,

And wild the clouded gleam.

The thistle now is older,

His stalks begin to moulder,

His head is white as snow;

The branches all are barer,

The linnet’s song is rarer,

The robin pipeth low.