With cloud nor rain To impair the day The sky azure And birds at play. Bees flitting tirelessly From flower to flower The sun changing ceaselessly The light by the hour. Then a shadow was cast As the sun slid away The blackness brought rain The birds ceased to play. I began to retreat As the storm gained weight But the moors held my feet And determined my fate. To gain entrance Is but to peruse the first page From there one is caught As if trapped in a cage. Geoffrey Price. 12. 7. 1997 inspired by " Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights "