Friday, January 3, 2003

Sherwood Comments

Rating: 3.2

Sherwood in the twilight, is Robin Hood awake?
Grey and ghostly shadows are gliding through the brake;
Shadows of the dappled deer, dreaming of the morn,
Dreaming of a shadowy man that winds a shadowy horn.
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Alfred Noyes
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Anthony Hassell 19 May 2007

This is a beautiful, beautiful poem. I first read Sherwood in my primary school in about 1955. Some of the verses had stuck in my mind and I had not read the poem since until very recently when I found it on the Internet. It was quite magical and even better than I remembered. Yes, the years certainly did roll away for me! This ought to be England's national poem and read aloud on St Geore's day in it's entirity! Tony Hassell

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