a verbal puzzle here. This reconstruction reads remarkably like his own short lyric "Song" (TLS, April 1954) in which "little winds of love/Come from a fabled south/Over exhausting oceans" to turn into a poem "that only speaks of love". If there is a nod, there, to Housman’s "The winds out of the west land blow", it turns, here, into a generous, full-blown tribute. A Housman Torso
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: A Housman Torso by Robert Conquest
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