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A clutch of eggs , honey , delicious mast , God has sent it : Sweet apples , red whortle - berries , Berries of the heath . Ale with herbs , a dish of strawberries , Of good taste and colour , Haws , berries of the yew , Sloes , nuts .
A clutch of eggs , honey , delicious mast , God has sent it : Sweet apples , red whortle - berries , Berries of the heath . Ale with herbs , a dish of strawberries , Of good taste and colour , Haws , berries of the yew , Sloes , nuts .
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a a To a Gitana Dancing ECAUSE you are fair as souls of the lost are fair , And your eyelids laugh with desire , and your laughing feet Are winged with desire , and your hands are wanton , and sweet Is the promise of love in your lips ...
a a To a Gitana Dancing ECAUSE you are fair as souls of the lost are fair , And your eyelids laugh with desire , and your laughing feet Are winged with desire , and your hands are wanton , and sweet Is the promise of love in your lips ...
Page 141
One night as they slept , the woman aroused the handsome stranger , and said to him , ' Sweet man , hearken ! I have had an evil dream . Methought thou wert very cold and white , and we were journeying together in a fine wagon .
One night as they slept , the woman aroused the handsome stranger , and said to him , ' Sweet man , hearken ! I have had an evil dream . Methought thou wert very cold and white , and we were journeying together in a fine wagon .
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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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