FROM THE POETRY SHELF1922

The Wild Goat

O you would clothe me in silken frocks And house me from the cold, And bind with bright bands my glossy locks, And buy me chains of gold; And give me—meekly to do my will— The hapless sons of men:— But the wild goat bounding on the barren hill Droops in the grassy pen.

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