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" no road here' And on the tree with ivy overhung The hated sign by vulgar taste is hung* As tho' the very birds should learn to know When they go there they must no further go... "
Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820 - Page 6
by J. M. Neeson - 1993 - 382 pages
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John Clare: Selected Poetry and Prose

John Clare - Appalachian Region, Southern - 1986 - 264 pages
...them all Each little tyrant with his little sign Shows where man claims earth glows no more divine On paths to freedom and to childhood dear A board sticks up to notice 'no road here' 70 And on the tree with ivy overhung The hated sign by vulgar taste is hung As tho the very birds should...
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John Clare in Context

Geoffrey Summerfield, Hugh Haughton, Adam Phillips - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 348 pages
...them all Each little tyrant with his little sign Shows where man claims earth glows no more divine On paths to freedom and to childhood dear A board sticks...to know When they go there they must no further go (lines 65-74) Again we are brought back to destruction and restriction. The 'mighty giants' are replaced...
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Selected Poems

John Clare - Poetry - 2000 - 404 pages
...fancy's eye As fallen landscapes from an evening sky These paths are stopt - the rude philistine's thrall Is laid upon them and destroyed them all Each...to know When they go there they must no further go Thus, with the poor, scared freedom bade goodbye And much they feel it in the smothered sigh And birds...
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The SAGE Handbook of Environment and Society

Jules Pretty, Andy Ball, Ted Benton, Julia Guivant, David R Lee, David Orr, Max Pfeffer, Professor Hugh Ward - Science - 2007 - 641 pages
...the rural labourer. It is shared with the plight of the non-human denizens of the woods and heaths: Each little tyrant with his little sign Shows where...to know When they go there they must no further go Thus, with the poor, scared freedom bade goodbye And much they feel it in the smothered sigh And birds...
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