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Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967). The Old Huntsman and Other Poems. 1918.

51. Dryads

WHEN meadows are grey with the morn

In the dusk of the woods it is night:

The oak and the birch and the pine

War with the glimmer of light.

Dryads brown as the leaf

Move in the gloom of the glade;

When meadows are grey with the morn

Dim night in the wood has delayed.

The cocks that crow to the land

Are faint and hollow and shrill:

Dryads brown as the leaf

Whisper, and hide, and are still.