AT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACK
HAD I but lived a hundred years ago
I might have gone, as I have gone this year,
By Warmwell Cross on to a Cove I know,
And Time have placed his finger on me there:
"You see that man?"—I might have looked, and said,
"O yes: I see him. One that boat has brought
Which dropped down Channel round Saint Alban's Head.
So commonplace a youth calls not my thought."
"You see that man?"—"Why yes; I told you; yes:
Of an idling town-sort; thin; hair brown in hue;
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