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An Anthology of Narrative Verse Alan Warner. 2 BISHOP HATTO This poem is based on a legend about a bishop who lived in Germany in the tenth century . There was a tower , called the Mouse - Tower , on an island in the Rhine , where the ...
An Anthology of Narrative Verse Alan Warner. 2 BISHOP HATTO This poem is based on a legend about a bishop who lived in Germany in the tenth century . There was a tower , called the Mouse - Tower , on an island in the Rhine , where the ...
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... Bishop Hatto never slept again . In the morning as he enter'd the hall , Where his picture hung against the wall , A sweat like death all over him came ; For the rats had eaten it out of the frame . As he look'd there came a man from ...
... Bishop Hatto never slept again . In the morning as he enter'd the hall , Where his picture hung against the wall , A sweat like death all over him came ; For the rats had eaten it out of the frame . As he look'd there came a man from ...
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... Bishop he grew more fearful for that , For she sat screaming , mad with fear , At the army of rats that was drawing near . For they have swum over the river so deep , And they have climb'd the shores so steep , And up the tower their ...
... Bishop he grew more fearful for that , For she sat screaming , mad with fear , At the army of rats that was drawing near . For they have swum over the river so deep , And they have climb'd the shores so steep , And up the tower their ...
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The Holy Well Anonymous | 1 |
Hiawathas Childhood H W Longfellow | 7 |
Hiawathas Wooing H W Longfellow | 13 |
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