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Page 169
In his chamber , weak and dying , While the Norman baron lay , Loud , without , his men were crying ' Shorter hours and better pay . ' Know you why the ploughman , fretting , Homeward plods his weary way Ere his time ?
In his chamber , weak and dying , While the Norman baron lay , Loud , without , his men were crying ' Shorter hours and better pay . ' Know you why the ploughman , fretting , Homeward plods his weary way Ere his time ?
Page 192
It's no go my honey love , it's no go my poppet ; Work your hands from day to day , the winds will blow the profit The glass is falling hour by hour , the glass will fall for ever , But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up ...
It's no go my honey love , it's no go my poppet ; Work your hands from day to day , the winds will blow the profit The glass is falling hour by hour , the glass will fall for ever , But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up ...
Page 344
But none were gêné : the great hour of union Was rung by dinner's knell ; till then all were Masters of their own time or in communion , Or solitary , as they chose to bear The hours , which how to pass is but to few known .
But none were gêné : the great hour of union Was rung by dinner's knell ; till then all were Masters of their own time or in communion , Or solitary , as they chose to bear The hours , which how to pass is but to few known .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Everyman Book of Light Verse |
| Editor | Robert Robinson |
| Publisher | Dent, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2007 |
| ISBN | 0460045873, 9780460045872 |
| Length | 500 pages |
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