Ha'nacker Mill

Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953



Sally is gone that was so kindly,
Sally is gone from Ha'nacker Hill
And the Briar grows ever since then so blindly;
And ever since then the clapper is still...
And the sweeps have fallen from Ha'nacker Mill.

Ha'nacker Hill is in Desolation:
Ruin a-top and a field unploughed.
And Spirits that call on a fallen nation,
Spirits that loved her calling aloud,
Spirits abroad in a windy cloud.

Spirits that call and no one answers --
Ha'nacker's down and England's done.
Wind and Thistle for pipe and dancers,
And never a ploughman under the Sun:
Never a ploughman. Never a one.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 02, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABABB CDCDD ECECC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 567
Words 104
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5

Hilaire Belloc

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902, but kept his French citizenship. more…

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