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Page 47
... At morn and night I hear When the thrush cock sings Bright irrelevant things , And when the chanticleer Calls back to their own night Troops that make loneliness With their light footsteps ' press , As Helen's own are light .
... At morn and night I hear When the thrush cock sings Bright irrelevant things , And when the chanticleer Calls back to their own night Troops that make loneliness With their light footsteps ' press , As Helen's own are light .
Page 188
... but he comes from Brummagem , and he does credit to his extraction ; but his adversary has a frame of adamant : in what a strange light they fight , but who can wonder , on looking at that frightful cloud , usurping now one half of ...
... but he comes from Brummagem , and he does credit to his extraction ; but his adversary has a frame of adamant : in what a strange light they fight , but who can wonder , on looking at that frightful cloud , usurping now one half of ...
Page 305
And thou hast climb'd the hill And gain'd the white brow of the Cumner range ; Turn'd once to watch , while thick the snowflakes fall , The line of festal light in Christ Church hallThen sought thy straw in some sequester'd grange .
And thou hast climb'd the hill And gain'd the white brow of the Cumner range ; Turn'd once to watch , while thick the snowflakes fall , The line of festal light in Christ Church hallThen sought thy straw in some sequester'd grange .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Wind on the Heath: A Gypsy Anthology |
| Editor | John Sampson |
| Compiled by | John Sampson |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus, 1930 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 25 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 362 pages |
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