“Ragland Castle”

O Ragland, beauty as you are,
Ruined arches, towers and views,
Not ruined views but fine ones,
Your Gothic arches and your falling towers,
With keystones, moats and drawbridges,

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5

Your mice‐house moss and burnt up grass
For mice to pull and line their falling dwellings,
Your spiral towers and holes for mice to live in,
Your dungeons, splits 1 and drawbridges,
Battlements, courts, and lodges,—

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10

So, Ragland, as I have described you,
I must take leave of you.