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" Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall... "
Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales: A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England - Page 162
by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1849 - 276 pages
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A Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Teesdale in the County of Durham

Frederick Dinsdale - English language - 1849 - 192 pages
...remaine unburied that he would cover the whole body also." — Cornucopia, by Thos. Johnson, 1596. " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." Webster's White Devil (Dyce's Ed. 1830, vol. i, p. 146). " Covering with moss the dead's unclosed eye,...
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A Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Teesdale in the County of Durham

Frederick Dinsdale - English language - 1849 - 182 pages
...remaine unburied that he would cover the whole body also." — Cornucopia, by Thos. Johnson, 1596. " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." Welster's White Devil (Dyce's Ed. 1830, vol. i, p. 146). " Covering with moss the dead's unclosed eye,...
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volume 3

John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...besides, when flowers are none, To winter-ground tby corse." Again in Reed's Old Plays, vi. 358 : " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flow'rs do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." An essayist in the Gent. Mag. for Sept. 1735,...
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Spring-tide: Or, The Angler and His Friends

John Yonge Akerman - English literature - 1850 - 242 pages
...simple rhyme embalms an ancient superstition. In an old play the wren is made to join in this pious office : — " Call for the robin redbreast and the...o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flow'rs do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." The fondness of the robin for his summer haunts...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 27

Literature - 1850 - 688 pages
...simple rhyme embalms an ancient superstition. In an old play the wren is made to join in this pious office : — " Call for the robin redbreast and the...o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flow'rs do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." The fondness of the robin for his summer haunts...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 27

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1850 - 688 pages
...What could have given rise to the story of the rubin covering the dead bodies of human creatures ? " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flow'rs do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." The fondness of the robin for his summer haunts...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...intenseness of feeling which seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates : — Call for the robin red-breast, and the wren, Since...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole, The ant, the fleld-monse, and the mole, To raise him hillocks that shall...
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Our Native Songsters

Anne Pratt - Birds - 1852 - 502 pages
...find it alluded to in several old writers. Thus, John Webster, who wrote in 1630 — 1638, says:— " Call for the robin redbreast, and the wren, Since...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Michael Dray ton too alludes to it: — " Covering with moss the dead's unclosed eye, The little redbreast...
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The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction, Volume 3

Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 644 pages
...We find it alluded to in several old writers. Thus, John Webster, who wrote in 1630-38, says : — " Call for the robin redbreast, and the wren, Since...leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of enburied men." Michael Drayton too alludes to it : — " Covering with moss the dead's unclos'd eye,...
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Songs from the Dramatists

Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1854 - 282 pages
...buried in obscurity.] THE WHITE DEVIL; OR, VITTORIA COROMBONA. 1612. ADIRQ E. for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall...
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