Exmoor Verses I. Vashti's Song

Over the rim of the Moor, And under the starry sky, Two men came to my door And rested them thereby. Beneath the bough and the star, In a whispering foreign tongue, They talked of a land afar And the merry days so young! Beneath the dawn and the bough I heard them arise and go: And my heart it is aching now For the more it will never know. Why did they two depart Before I could understand? Where lies that land, O my heart? —O my heart, where lies that land?