Dancing Dust
	Poems by Mollie Caird (1922-2000)
	Rondeau of rooks
Home Alphabetic index of poems Thematic index of poems Biography Gallery Contact and links	White-bibbed, black-gowned, the rooks are prating, Ahead of Spring now congregating In Mary Magdalen's sycamore; Quiet Balliol and the traffic's roar Both lie beneath their convocating. Busy with building, mending, mating, With ancient lore of rent and rating, The city's hum the rooks ignore, White-bibbed, black-gowned. Beside them, dumbly imitating, Saint Mary's golden cock, gyrating, Swings round the wind for evermore. The rooks look down: on Broad Street's floor Are Proctors circumambulating, White-bibbed, black-gowned. Oxford Times, 5 March 1965