November
Zun’s a feeble lamp
O’er leery land
Stares a’chat in code
Lark a meagre note
Drush repeats ’enself
Over UNDERWHELEM
Croopied in the reames
Shepherd gurrel weaves
zun – sun; leery – empty in the stomach, wanting food; stare – starling; drush – thrush; ’enself – himself; croopy – to sink one’s body, bending down the thighs behind the legs; reames – the frame or ligaments of a thing, skeleton; gurrel – girl; weave – to rock backwards and forwards as in pain