I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Iron-jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive, and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of... Poems - Page 89by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845Full view - About this book
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...and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in tho son ; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,...with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books.' The parody is really little more than an imitation : — ' There the passions, cramp'd no longer, shall... | |
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...and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun ; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,...the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. J, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures,... | |
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...Whistle back the parrot's .call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks, Not with blinded eyesight pouring over miserable books Fool, again the dream, the fancy...the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. 1, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures,... | |
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...and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,...the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. 7, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures,... | |
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...fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. /, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious...beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost... | |
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