Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Peck O' Maut
An Old House Great Rome was raised on hill-tops seven:In pomp to all the winds of Heaven
Her brazen eagles flew: I know an old house in a hollow,
Its white walls harled with good Scots harling;
Here haunts at dawn the gossip starling,
Here comes the first returning swallow
When skies are egg-shell blue. Great Rome, she walled eternal glory:
The fame that rang in camp and story
Still to her stones belongs: The old house shadows, quaint and fragrant,
A garden famed for stocks and roses,
Where, when a summer evening closes,
Old borders bloom, half-guessed and vagrant,
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