Robert Angus
A Glimpse Of The Park
A centuries-old wall
solidly in granite
surrounds
the park.
Pheasants stalk happily through coverts
Partridges saunter in root-fields
Salmon & trout splash dart or lurk
in river & lake.
A note tacked to the magnificent oak door
reads:
‘All letters parcels
communications
of any description
will NOT
from Dec 23rd*
BE REQUIRED.
It’s easy to picture the owner
furiously in a dogcart
driving
(pursued by creditors)
feverishly through the night.
* * *
‘Will the estate dwindle & the house
crumble?
Or will the park be
(March 21st**)
brighter than a new pin
- all embezzlers departed -
A 2ND EDEN?’
* Winter begins today. ** Spring begins.
Note. Except for tourists most of these parks (once stuffed with hundreds of game-birds & with river & lake marvellously alive with salmon & trout) have largely disintegrated, their grasping & crooked owners chased at the onset of a desperate winter rapidly out of them. The happy return in an unimaginable spring of a renovated owner to a refurbished estate is DISTINCTLY no doubt questionable.
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