Crossword-Solution: EGDON 5 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

THE MOTH-SIGNAL (_On Egdon Heath_) “WHAT are you still, still thinking,” He asked in vague surmise, “That stare at the wick unblinking With those great lost luminous eyes?” “O, I see a poor moth burning In the candle-flame,” said she, “Its wings and legs are turning To a cinder rapidly.” “Moths fly in from the heather,” He said, “now the days decline.” “I know,” said she.

Inland could be seen Badbury Rings, where a beacon had been recently erected; and nearer, Rainbarrow, on Egdon Heath, where another stood: farther to the left Bulbarrow, where there was yet another.

Their course lay apart from that of the others, to a lonely spot high above the water-meads, and not far from the border of Egdon Heath, whose dark countenance was visible in the distance as they drew nigh to their home.

She started just before the time of day mentioned between them, and half-an-hour’s brisk walking brought her to the south-eastern extension of the Egdon tract of country, where the fir plantation was.

She laid a hand on the dresser-ledge, And scanned far Egdon-side; And stood; and you heard the wind-swept sedge And the rippling Froom; till she cried: “O my chamber’s untidied, unmade my bed Though the day has begun to wear! ‘What a slovenly hussif!’ it will be said, When they all go up my stair!” She disappeared; and the joker stood Depressed by his neighbour’s doom, And amazed that a wife struck to widowhood Thought first of her unkempt room.