Spring at Hadrian’s Wall

The Wall lies old in Lowland fields,
and stones lie soft with time,
spring fae laugh lightly through the grass
with bells and bits of rhyme.

She slips between the Roman lines,
through cracks of lichen grey,
and coaxes green from stubborn earth
that would not bloom in clay.

Three hundred miles they set the stones,
from Bowness to the Tyne,
to mark the edge of empire’s reach
and keep the wilds in line.

But oh, the wilds had other plans,
and danced where boots once fell,
for fair folk never mind a wall
nor heed a soldier’s yell.

The foxglove rings her purple chimes
for bees in velvet coats,
while larks lift silver through the sky
with bright and bobbing notes.

The thistle lifts her thorny crown,
no Caesar bids her bend,
and heather spills in laughing drifts
no border ever penned.

Come wander where the old stones dream,
where moss has made them kind,
for time grows soft in Lowland spring
and loosens what it binds.

You’ll hear it there, if steps fall light,
a hush beneath the breeze,
a trace of marching long ago
and wings among the trees.

Where Hadrian’s Wall runs west to east,
past forts and milecast lines,
once lit by watch and lantern glow,
now wrapped in fern and vines.

So tread as though the land might wake
and take you in her play,
for history lies beneath your feet
and fairies still hold sway.

By Heather Patton / Verdant Butterfly

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