liswyn

Updated: May 22, 2025

The little boy in the poem says that he would rather be at Kilve than at Liswyn. When his father foolishly presses him to give a reason for his preference, he invents one: "At Kilve there was no weather-cock, And that's the reason why." Naturally, I looked around the village to see whether it would still answer to the little boy's description.

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