November has begun, Yet never shone the sun as fair as now

SecondLife of Angelus

Visit Dutch estate

 

Edward Thomas, ‘There’s Nothing Like the Sun’.

 

The south wall warms me: November has begun,

Yet never shone the sun as fair as now

While the sweet last-left damsons from the bough

With spangles of the morning’s storm drop down

Because the starling shakes it, whistling what

Once swallows sang …

Done