POETRY.
CUDLAWE.
[The village of Ondlawe, in Sussex, was given to Earl Roger Montgomery after the Battle of Bastings. It formerly belonged to Earl Godwin. It was submerged. Ville sea some two or three centuries ago.]
NEVER again along the village street Shall children play, or in deep-rutted lanes Gather great benches of the meadow-sweet, Or ride at sunset on the loaded wains Half-buried in..the warm and scented hay, No lovers linger in the friendly dark Of moonleim nights ; and all the summer's day
In the farm homesteads, silence ; no dogs bark ;
There is no movement and no sound beside The circling curlews' oft-repeated call,
A plaintive cry ; and when the ebbing tide
Is lowest there is but a broken wall, The fragment of a dwelling made by hands How long since dead ! far out upon the sands.
MORAY DALTON.
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