Crossword-Solution: PARCH 5 letters, 52 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Now let the pliant basket plaited be Of bramble-twigs; now set your corn to parch Before the fire; now bruise it with the stone.

And to the brute drums of barbarian hordes, Roaring and thunderous and weapon-bare, An army stormed the bastions of the air! Dreadful with banners, fire to slay and parch, Marching together as the lightnings march, And swift as storm-clouds.

Peace to fall like gentle showers, Or on parchéd flowers dew, Till our hearts proclaim with gladness: Lo, He maketh all things new.

This too, O often from the soul men say, Along their couches holding of the cups, With faces shaded by fresh wreaths awry: "Brief is this fruit of joy to paltry man, Soon, soon departed, and thereafter, no, It may not be recalled."--As if, forsooth, It were their prime of evils in great death To parch, poor tongues, with thirst and arid drought, Or chafe for any lack.

And what hard task abstracts me from delight, Filling with hopeless hope and dear despair The still-born day and parchèd fields of night, That my old way of song, no longer fair, For lack of serene care, Is grown a stony and a weed-choked plot, Thou only know’st aright, Thou only know’st, for I know not.