Morning Work

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3 title="Morning Work">MORNING WORK </h3> <div class="stanza"> <div><span class="smc">A gang</span> of labourers on the piled wet timber</div> <div>That shines blood-red beside the railway siding</div> <div>Seem to be making out of the blue of the morning</div> <div>Something faery and fine, the shuttles sliding,</div> <span class="ns"><br/></span></div> <!-- stanza --> <div class="stanza"> <div>The red-gold spools of their hands and faces shuttling</div> <div>Hither and thither across the morn’s crystalline frame</div> <div>Of blue: trolls at the cave of ringing cerulean mining,</div> <div>And laughing with work, living their work like a game.</div> </div><!-- stanza --> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />