Destroyers and Other Verses/Hid From Sight of Pasture Lands
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Hid from sight of pasture lands,
Behind the Church a yew-tree stands,
Banished from the cheerful fields,
For the deadly fruit it yields.
Year by year it waxes tall,
Hemmed within the Church-yard wall;
For the Church must ever keep
Poisoned fruit from silly sheep.
Without a knot its branches grow,
Each to form a yeoman’s bow,
Evergreen and never old,
For they spring from churchyard mould.
A solitary from the throng,
I fashioned weapons for the strong:
But every thought within my head
Has its roots among the dead.
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