In Time To Come.

In time to come in northern lands
will folk speak of hardier man,
who braved the snow the frost the ice
enough to chill to paradise,

and, in praising those bygone men
in bringing home the goat, the hen,
wonder where this fabled weather went
from Iceland's streets or towns like Ghent,

pondering on this thing profound
with naked toe in soggy ground,
wander home their bedraggled way
through fields of rice, through steamy day...