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Ammon Wrigley: On A Yorkshire Moor
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Over a hill the west wind loves,
There lies a quiet glen,
Far away from the roaring world,
Far from the strife of men ;
Out to the south a lordly wall
Reared by no human hands,
A cloud-dark wall that overlooks
The windy heather lands.

Crags to the north like fortress bold,
A proud arrogant steep,
That shelters from the raiding storms
The winter-harassed sheep ;
Out to the east a rising fell,
Striped like a tiger’s skin,
With raking flank of yellow grass,
And ribs of darksome whin.

And one grey rock, like pagan god,
Solemn as death, and lone,
That oft, maybe, the hill tribes made
Their ancient worship stone ;
The strange wild people of the past
Have vanished race on race,
And we, like shadows on the grass,
Now pass before its face.

Ammon Wrigley (1861-1946)
Songs of a Moorland Parish, 1912.


Rest, and photo of Millstone Edge at Standedge, Overlooking Ammon Wrigley’s birthplace in Saddleworth, on Andy Hemingway’s blog here.


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Littlestone
Posted by Littlestone
12th May 2014ce
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