Excerpt from Distaff and Spindle: Sonnets Come up! Come out! And hear the blackbirds sing, Those poets of an independent school Who boast and banter, mimic and befool, And everywhere their saucy melody ing, With its audacious and delightful ring Of lawlessness and carelessness and cool Contempt for any rhythm, rhyme, or rule, On which their roystering roundelays to string. What birds of happiness and health are they! Who ever knew a blackbird sick or sad? Hark to their jokes and jeers and jaunty calls, While chronically ...
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Excerpt from Distaff and Spindle: Sonnets Come up! Come out! And hear the blackbirds sing, Those poets of an independent school Who boast and banter, mimic and befool, And everywhere their saucy melody ing, With its audacious and delightful ring Of lawlessness and carelessness and cool Contempt for any rhythm, rhyme, or rule, On which their roystering roundelays to string. What birds of happiness and health are they! Who ever knew a blackbird sick or sad? Hark to their jokes and jeers and jaunty calls, While chronically wretched all the day, A feathered J acqu???s, melancholy mad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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