 The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.  Poems, - Page 98by William Cowper - 1817Full view - About this book
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...own unbalanced weight. 40 Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful haunts of man, to ger bright ! But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And 45 And tail cropped short, half lurcher1 and hall cur, His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now... | |
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...its own unbalanc'd weight. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern'd The cheerful haunts of man; to wield the axe And drive the wedge, in yonder forest...Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropp'd short, half lurcher and half cur — His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now creeps... | |
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