Teignmouth: "Some Doggerel," Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon

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I.
Here all the summer could I stay,
  For there's Bishop's teign
  And King's teign
And Coomb at the clear Teign head--
  Where close by the stream
  You may have your cream
All spread upon barley bread.

II.
  There's Arch Brook
  And there's Larch Brook
Both turning many a mill,
  And cooling the drouth
  Of the salmon's mouth
And fattening his silver gill.

III.
  There is Wild wood,
  A Mild hood
To the sheep on the lea o' the down,
  Where the golden furze,
  With its green, thin spurs,
Doth catch at the maiden's gown.

IV.
  There is Newton Marsh
  With its spear grass harsh--
A pleasant summer level
  Where the maidens sweet
  Of the Market Street
Do meet in the dusk to revel.

V.
  There's the Barton rich
  With dyke and ditch
And hedge for the thrush to live in,
  And the hollow tree
  For the buzzing bee
And a bank for the wasp to hive in.

VI.
  And O, and O
  The daisies blow
And the primroses are waken'd,
  And violets white
  Sit in silver plight,
And the green bud's as long as the spike end.

VII.
  Then who would go
  Into dark Soho,
And chatter with dack'd-hair'd critics,
  When he can stay
  For the new-mown hay,
And startle the dappled Prickets?

© John Keats