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A Lesson
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375 A Lesson The wind it blew on Brierly Hill Till the firs did creak amain, And the storm wrack hid the things it did In long grey gusts of rain. The snows did press, the frost did bite, And the wind it wried them still, And the sleet and the rain went into the grain Of the firs on Brierly Hill. And that is the reason the star-built firs Went down to the wind-blown main, To prove on the sea what they learned to be In the snow and the sleet and the rain. Editor’s Notes AU 296; clean typescript, with “Shasta?” as potential place substitution for “Brierly Hill” but only in the first stanza. ...