• Along the country roadside, stone on stone,
    Past waving grain-field, and near broken stile,
    The walls stretch onward, an uneven pile,
    With rankling vines and lichen overgrown:
    So stand they sentinel. Unchanged, alone,
    They ’re left to watch the seasons’ passing slow:
    The summer’s sunlight or the winter’s snow,
    The spring-time’s birdling,...