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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 143
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The Divine Comedy, Volume 3

Dante Alighieri - 1886 - 574 pages
...mouths I that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1886 - 634 pages
...mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold ' A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they P They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel5 pipes of...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1886 - 568 pages
...mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they 2 They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of...
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The Minor Poems of John Milton

John Milton - 1887 - 258 pages
...mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least 1=0 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they? They are sped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw....
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Milton's L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Lycidas, Sonnets Etc

John Milton - 1889 - 222 pages
...mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least 120 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw...
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Harper's First [-sixth] Reader, Book 6

Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1890 - 516 pages
...mouths! that scarce themselves know how tos hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; 3 And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched...
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Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity: L'allegro : Il Penseroso ...

John Milton - 1891 - 236 pages
...mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least 120 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; A1)d when /they list, their lean and flashy- songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched...
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Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys

William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 394 pages
...Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw;...
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The Blue Poetry Book

Andrew Lang - 1891 - 816 pages
...mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn' d aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw...
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Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys

William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 404 pages
...Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw;...
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