On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves
The gale it plies the saplings double
And thick on Severn snow the leaves
'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
When Uricon the city stood
'Tis the old wind in the old anger
But then it threshed another wood
Then 'twas before my time the Roman
At yonder heaving hill would stare
The blood that warms an english yeoman
The thoughts that hurt him they were there
There like the wind through woods in riot
Through him the gale of life blew high
The tree of man was never quiet
Then 'twas the Roman now 'tis I
The gale it plies the saplings double
It blows so hard 'twill soon be gone
To-day the Roman and his trouble
Are ashes under Uricon
