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oh but her beauty gone how lonely then will seem all reverie how black to me
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all things will sad be made and every hope a memory all gladness dead
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ghosts of the past will know my weakest hour and whisper to me and coldly go
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and hers in deep of sleep clothed in its mortal beauty i shall see and waking weep
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naught will my mind then find in man's false heaven my peace to be all blind and blind
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and none lifts a hand to withhold a friend from the touch of that foe heart cries unto heart thou art old
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there now death goes mayhap i've wearied him
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come love my lad nodding that drowsy head 'tis time thy prayers were said
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even the gods must feel a smarting of the eyes as these fumes upsweal
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while the shape who hoofs applause behind our deafened ear hoots angel-wise the cause
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heavenly archer bend thy bow now the flame of life burns low youth is gone i too would go
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even fortune leads to this harsh or kind at last she is murderess of all ecstasies
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yet the spirit dark alone bound in sense still hearkens on for tidings of a bliss foregone
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ah me what a strange what a gladsome duet from a house in the deeps of a wood
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such shrill and such harsh voices never met yet a-laughing as loud as they could could could a-laughing as loud as they could
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now only night is where the pedlar was and bleak as frost upon a quickling bud his magic steals in darkness o alas
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why all the morning hath the cuckoo tolled sad to and fro in green and secret ways with solemn bells the burden of his days
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wh-s-st said dame hickory ye false faerie ye cry like a wolf ye do and trouble poor me
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the fiends stared down with leaden eye fanning the chill air duskily 'twixt their hoods they stoop and cry
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for every tooth of his in sooth a stag in pawn i hold o
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what ghostly hound is this that fleet comes fawning to his mistress' feet and courses round his master
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how swiftly love may grief remove how happy make disaster
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o who are ye sweet lucy cries that in a dreadful ring all muffled up in brindled shawls do caper frisk and spring
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withdraw my curtains from the night upon my eyelids while i sleep and soothe me with her beams benign
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child do you love the flower ashine with colour and dew lighting its transient hour
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posting date: november release date: january first posted: october
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go little book and if an one would speak thee ill let him bethink him that thou art the child of one who loves thee well
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why when i saw you last a smile wuz restin' on your face like you wuz glad to sleep forever in that lonely place and so you wuz 'nd i 'd be too if i wuz sleepin' so
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but bein' how a brother's love ain't for the world to know whenever i've this heartache 'nd this chokin' in my throat i lay it all to thinkin' of casey's tabble dote
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but madge ye hoyden laught cried oho oho in girlish glee and noe thing mo replied
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then ben sir tomas sore despight and back unto his hall went hee with face as ashen white
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but robin did not pay no heede and they ben wed a somer night danct upon ye meade
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ye which gave joy to robin's soul saies robin: divell be it soe an that you make me whoale
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hush bonnie dinna greit moder will rocke her sweete balow my boy
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gin thou dost sleepe perchaunce fayries will come to daunce balow my boy
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then droned a bomblebee saftly this songe to thee balow my boy
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soe bonnie dinna greit moder doth rock her sweete balow my boy
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last night whiles that the curfew bell ben ringing i heard a moder to her dearie singing lollyby lolly lollyby
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and presently that chylde did cease hys weeping and on his moder's breast did fall a-sleeping to lolly lolly lollyby
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faire ben the chylde unto his moder clinging but fairer yet the moder's gentle singing lollyby lolly lollyby
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and angels came and kisst the dearie smiling in dreems while him hys moder ben beguiling with lolly lolly lollyby
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chloe of thrace with what a grace does she at song or harp employ her
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i'd gladly die if only i might live forever to enjoy her
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and will you hear this song of mine a song of the land of murk and mist where bideth the bud the dew hath kist
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and best of all the paragraphs are pointed as a tack and that's because they emanate from little mack
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so when a politician with a record's on the track we're apt to hear some history from little mack
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what profanations these that seek to dim the glories of apple-pie and cheese
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but the child heard not the sea calling yearning evermore for the summer on the shore
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give us a tune the foemen cried in one of their profane caprices i bade them no they frowned and lo
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this fiddle was the village pride its wizard art set every heart as well as every foot to dancing
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up at that peach a club they threw down from the stem on which it grew fell that peach of emerald hue
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john took a bite and sue a chew and then the trouble began to brew trouble the doctor couldn't subdue
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i hear thy voice dear lord in singing winds in falling snow the curfew chimes the midnight bell
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sleep well my child it murmurs low the guardian angels come and go o child sleep well
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they give me joy without alloy and isn't that what books are made for
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a plague i say on maidens gay i'll weave no compliments to tell 'em
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vain fool i were did i prefer those dolls to these old friends in vellum
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and where is thy daughter we would she were here go fetch us that maiden to gladden our cheer
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and lo as they stood in the doorway the white of a shroud and a dead shrunken face met their sight
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i show no sign of fear when bacchus sends his blessing friends i drown my panic in his cheer
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wall that wuz quite another thing we owned that ary cuss who'd worked f'r mr dana must be good enough fer us
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i don't object that men should air the gallic they have paid for for that's what french was made for
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come brother from your winding-sheet and let us two be boys again
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ho bonnie fairy bring my dearie back to me got a lump o' sugar an' a posie for you only bring back my wee wee croodlin doo
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then spake kyng arthure: if soe be you mind to do no ill come enter into camelot and eat and drink your fill but say me first what you are hight and what mought be your quest
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oh then and there was grevious lamentation all arounde for nony dame nor damosel in camelot ben found gone like ye forest leaves that speed afore ye autumn wind
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patiently i'll go singing to the end comrades to your wine
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when sorry tom received the gang perlitely at the door he said that keerds would be allowed upon the second floor and then he asked us would we like a drop uv ody vee
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a conversazzhyony is a thing where people speak the langwidge in the which they air partickulerly weak i see sez sorry tom you grasp what that 'ere lingo means
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you bet yer boots sez hoover i've lived at noo orleens an' though i ain't no frenchie nor kin unto the same i kin parly voo an' git there too like eli toot lee mame
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i hoped you'd pass me by alas the years have sneaked away and all is changed but i
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i pledge thee in this wine come let us journey on our way a year good thirty-nine
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be thou or truth or dream he cried or spirit of the restless tide it booteth not to me god wot
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at half-past ten came rapture then of all those men was i most happy for bottled beer and royal cheer
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managing editor john r howard
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suggested readings: in connection with the earlier poem ulysses and the two voices in connection with the later poem maud memoir of tennyson by lord hallam tennyson
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a cavalry charge my darling ah the glass is out
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breathes there the man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said this is my own my native land
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whose heart has ne'er within him burned as home his footsteps he hath turned from wandering on a foreign strand
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our father land and wouldst thou know why we should call it father land
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the lyre was his and his the breathing might of the immortal marble his the play of diamond-pointed thought and golden tongue
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go seek the sunshine race ye find to-day a broken column and a lute unstrung
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within the burrowing worm had gnawed its home a roofless ruin stands where once abode the imperial race of everlasting rome
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the men were bred in england the bowman the yeoman the lads of dale and fell
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when mighty roast beef was the englishman's food it ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good
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but since we have learned from effeminate france to eat their ragouts as well as to dance we are fed up with nothing but vain complaisance
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our fathers of old were robust stout and strong and kept open house with good cheer all day long which made their plump tenants rejoice in this song
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when good queen elizabeth sat on the throne ere coffee and tea and such slip-slops were known the world was in terror if e'en she did frown
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in those days if fleets did presume on the main they seldom or never returned back again as witness the vaunting armada of spain
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daddy neptune one day to freedom did say if ever i lived upon dry land the spot i should hit on would be little britain
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came by water he couldn't come by land and dane pict and saxon their homes turned their backs on and all for the sake of our island
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the dons came to plunder the island but snug in her hive the queen was alive and buzz was the word of the island
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the good wooden walls of the island devil or don let them come on and see how they'd come off the island
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thy choicest gifts in store on him be pleased to pour long may he reign
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we deemed of old thou held'st a charge from him who watches girdled by his seraphim to smite the wronger with thy destined rod
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the brazen-throated clarion blows across the pathan's reedy fen and the high steeps of indian snows
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o lonely himalayan height gray pillar of the indian sky where saw'st thou last in clanging fight
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and that dread city of cabool whose marble tanks are ever full with water for the noonday heat
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o stretch thy mighty hand gigantic grown by toil o'er the vast atlantic wave to our shore
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