Category: Short Stories

Fires - Book 2: The Ovens, and Other Tales

Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson, 1878-1962· 2 chapters· 7,443 words

The biggest crane on earth, it lifts Two hundred ton more easily Than I can lift my heavy head: And when it swings, the whole world shifts, Or so, at least, it seems to me, As, day and night, adream I lie Upon my crippled back in bed, And watch it up against the sky.

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1. Part 1

The biggest crane on earth, it lifts Two hundred ton more easily Than I can lift my heavy head: And when it swings, the whole world shifts, Or so, at least, it seems to me, As,...

2. Part 2

And when they reached the low, half-buried stone That marked where some old shepherd had been found, Lost in the snow in seeking his lost sheep, One wild March night, full forty...