. Maud, Locksley hall, and other poems . I SEE THE MOULDERD ABBEY WALLS. (86) The Talking Oak. 87 Foroftltalkdwith him apart,And told hitn of my choice,Until he plagiarised a heart,And answerd with a voice. Tho what he whis-perd under Hea-ven None else couldunderstand ; I found him garru-lously given, A babbler in the woui-d twist his girdle tight, and patland. THE GIRLS UPON the cheek. Biit since I heard him make reply Is many a weary hour ;Twere well to question him and try If yet he keeps the Hail, hidden to the knees in fern,Broad Oak of Sumner-chace, Whose topmost branches can dis
. Maud, Locksley hall, and other poems . I SEE THE MOULDERD ABBEY WALLS. (86) The Talking Oak. 87 Foroftltalkdwith him apart,And told hitn of my choice,Until he plagiarised a heart,And answerd with a voice. Tho what he whis-perd under Hea-ven None else couldunderstand ; I found him garru-lously given, A babbler in the woui-d twist his girdle tight, and patland. THE GIRLS UPON the cheek. Biit since I heard him make reply Is many a weary hour ;Twere well to question him and try If yet he keeps the Hail, hidden to the knees in fern,Broad Oak of Sumner-chace, Whose topmost branches can discernThe roofs of Sumner-place ! Say thou, whereon I carved her name, If ever maid or spouse,As fair as my Olivia, came To rest beneath thy boughs.— 88 The Talking Oak. O Walter, I have shelterd here Whatever maiden graceThe good old Summers, year by year Made ripe in Sumner-chace : Old Summers, when the monk was fat,And, issuing shorn and sleek. Would twist his girdle tight, and patThe girls upon the cheek, Ere yet, in scorn of Peters-pence,And numberd bead, and shrift, Bluff Harry broke into the spenceAnd turnd the cowls adrift: And I have seen a score of thoseFresh faces, that would thrive When his man-minded offset roseTo chase the deer at five ; And all that from the town would stroll,Till that wild wind made work In which the gloomy brewers soulWent by me, like a stork : The slight she-slips of loyal blood. And others, passing praise,Straight-laced, but all-too-fuU in bud For puritanic st
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