The Wind on the Heath: A Gypsy AnthologyJohn Sampson |
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... seemed to defy right sturdily The world and all worldly matters . Thrice to the soul they seemed to say , When earthly trouble tries it , How to fiddle , sleep it , and smoke it away , And so in three ways despise it . And ever anon I ...
... seemed to defy right sturdily The world and all worldly matters . Thrice to the soul they seemed to say , When earthly trouble tries it , How to fiddle , sleep it , and smoke it away , And so in three ways despise it . And ever anon I ...
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... seemed to abandon themselves to all the Oriental expressions of grief ; the women making a piteous wailing and tearing their long black hair , while the men seemed to rend their garments , and to sprinkle dust upon their heads . . . The ...
... seemed to abandon themselves to all the Oriental expressions of grief ; the women making a piteous wailing and tearing their long black hair , while the men seemed to rend their garments , and to sprinkle dust upon their heads . . . The ...
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... seemed by his silence to decide that the death of one or two of the most ferocious and turbulent of his gang would be an acceptable event . He even applied himself with more than common diligence to the construction of a silver ...
... seemed by his silence to decide that the death of one or two of the most ferocious and turbulent of his gang would be an acceptable event . He even applied himself with more than common diligence to the construction of a silver ...
Contents
LORDS OF THE UNIVERSE | 3 |
THE YOUTHFUL RUSKIN SPEAKS | 10 |
WHERE DO WE COME FROM? | 16 |
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