Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967). The Old Huntsman and Other Poems. 1918.

52. Morning-Land

OLD English songs, you bring to me

A simple sweetness somewhat kin

To birds that through the mystery

Of earliest morn make tuneful din,

While hamlet steeples sleepily

At cock-crow chime out three and four,

Till maids get up betime and go

With faces like the red sun low

Clattering about the dairy floor.