So the fig-shoots go fanding
what the year youthful might yield out,
yard-witting forms.
fanding: testing, probing, proving (obsolete/dialectal)

The poet they probably shouldn’t have sent. I watch anime and am sometimes accused of reading books. I'm writing a long gay giant robot story in verse—probably this millennium's best yuri mecha epic poem, through lack of competition.
'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country’s countless bells.'
So the fig-shoots go fanding
what the year youthful might yield out,
yard-witting forms.
fanding: testing, probing, proving (obsolete/dialectal)