Wild Creatures

Wild Creatures written by William Henry Davies

From "My Birds", 1933

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They say wild creatures hide themselves,
And seek a quiet place to die:
Would that my end were such as theirs,
So strange, so wild a thing am I.
Let no man sneer at me, and say -
'We know this poet hides with care;
Inside the Abbey's sacred walls
He hides himself- If anywhere.'
I, who have lived for Nature's love,
Think nothing of your sculptured stones -
Who sees a dingle lined with moss,
And one small row of clean, white bones?

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