Here you will find the Poem Witchery Knows! of poet William Henry Ogilvie
Witchery knows what it means When the oats and the barley, the wheat and the beans, Have been built into stacks and the stubbles are bare; When the woodlands are flaming in russet and rose, When there's rime on the grass and a nip in the air, Witchery knows! Witchery knows very well When the gorse-tops are shaking down there in the dell, And a Whip like a statue waits under a tree, That the moment has come to be up on her toes And reaching her lean little head to her knee- Witchery knows! Witchery knows how to creep When the banks are still blind and the ditches are deep, When a double looms up scarce a cat could get through, While his true tongue beyond it old Ruffian throws, Little Witchery knows how to take it in two- Witchery knows! Witchery knows how to race When the hard-riding leaders are cramming on pace And the dog-hounds are lifting it over the plough; She hears the glad horn and the challenge it blows, And she knows how to answer that merry tow-row- Witchery knows! Witchery knows the whole game From the find of a fox to the death of the same; And she knows when the woods in full splendour are dressed, And the berries hang black where the elder-bush grows, That it's time for a good mare to gallop her best- Witchery knows !
