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Credit: The poetical works of Alfred Tennyson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Not spread the plague, the famiue ; Gods indeed. To seud the noon into the night and break The sunless hulls of Hades into Heaven ? Till thv dark lord accept and love the Sun, And all the Siiadow die into the Liyht, When thou shalt dwell the whole bright year with me, And souls of men, who grew beyond their race, And made themselves as Gods against the fear Of Death and Hell; and thou that hast from men, As Queen of Death, that worship which is Fear, Henceforth, as having risen from out the dead, Shalt ever send thy life along with mine From buried grain thro' springing blade, and bless Their garner'd Autumn also, reap with me, Earth-mother, in the harvest hymns of Earth The worship which is Love, and see no more The Stone, the Wheel, the dimly-glim- mering lawns Of that Elysium, all the hateful fires Of torment, and the shadowy warrior glide Along the silent field of Asphodel. OWD R0A.1 Naay, noii raander ^ o' use to be callin' 'im Koa, Kosi, Roii, Fo' the do^i's stoiin-deiif, an' e's blind, 'e can neither stan' nor goa. But 1 means fur to maake 'is owd aage as 'appy as iver I can, Fur I owas owd Roilver moor nor 1 iver owad mottal man. Thou's rode of 'is back when a babby, afoor thou was gotten too owd. For 'e 'd fetch an' carry like owt, 'e was alius as good as gowd. Eh, but 'e 'd fight wi' a will when 'e fowt; 'e could howd ^ 'is oau, ' Old Rover. * Maimer. ^ Hold. An' Roii was the dog as knaw'dwhen au' wheere to bury his boaue. An' 'e kep his head hoop like a king, an' 'e'd uiver not down wi' 'is tiiail. Fur 'e 'd uiver done uowt to be shaamed on, when we was i' liowlaby Daiile An' 'e sarved me sa well when 'e lived, that, Dick, when 'e cooms to be dead, I thinks as I'd like fur to hev sooin soort of a sarvice reiid. Fur 'e 's moor good sense ua the Parlia- ment man 'at stans fur us 'ere, Au' I'd voiit fur 'im, my oiin seti, if 'e could but stan fur the Shere. Faiiithful an' True — them words be i' Scriptur — an' Faiiithful an' True Ull be fun' * upo' four short legs ten times fur one u])o' two. An' niaaybe they '11 walk upo' two but 1 knaws they runs u]jo' four, — Bedtime, Dicky! but waiiit till tha 'eiirs it be strikin' the hour. Fur I wants to tell tha o' Roii when we lived i' Howlaliy Daiile, Ten year sin — Naiiy — naiiy! tha mun nobbut hev' one glass of aale. Straiinge an' owd-farran'd ^ the 'ouse, an' hclt long afoor my daily Wi' haiife o' the chimleys a-twizzen'd ^ m' twined like a band o' haiiy. The fellers as maiikes them picturs, 'ud coom at the fall o' the year, An' sattle their ends upo stools to pictur the door-poorch theere, An' the Hea^le 'as bed two heiids stan- uin' theere o' the brokken stick;'-* An' they niver 'ed seed sich iviu'i a^ graw'd hall ower the brick; An' tlieere i' the'ouse one night — but it's down, an' all on it now * Found. ^ Ou a.s in house. ^ Owd-farran'd, oldfashioned. ' Built. » Twizzen-d ■' twiwted. K Ou a staff ragule. i Ivy.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20452597_0825.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
