Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES EROM THE POETS. ^V The Village Ale-House. P ;^*^^W^EAR yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing Ues that house, where nut-brown draughts gray-beard mirth, and smihng toil retired,Where village statesmen talked with looks news much older than their ale went fondly stoops to traceparlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-washed wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the doorj The

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Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES EROM THE POETS. ^V The Village Ale-House. P ;^*^^W^EAR yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing Ues that house, where nut-brown draughts gray-beard mirth, and smihng toil retired,Where village statesmen talked with looks news much older than their ale went fondly stoops to traceparlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-washed wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the doorj The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The Twelve Good Rules, the royal game of Goose; The hearth, except when winter chilled the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers and fennel gay; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged oer the chimney, glistened in a transitory splendours ! could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall % Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hours importance to the poor m

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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectpoetry, bookyear1876