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" Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain ; But since of late Elizabeth, And later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been. "
The Cambridge Tart: Epigrammatic and Satiric-poetical Effusions; &c. &c ... - Page 232
by Richard Gooch - 1823 - 289 pages
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English Poems: The Elizabethan age and the Puritan period (1550-1660)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1909 - 572 pages
...many a grassy plain ; But since, of late, Elizabeth And, later, James came in, 30 They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been. By which...fairies Were of the old profession : Their songs were Ave-Marys, 35 Their dances were procession. But now, alas, they all are dead, Or gone beyond the seas,...
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The Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The comedies: The blind beggar of ...

George Chapman - 1914 - 946 pages
...late Elizabeth, And later James, came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath bin. By which we note the fairies Were of the old profession ; Their songs were Ave-Maries, Their dances were procession. But now, alas I they all are dead, Or gone beyond the seas,...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children

Kenneth Grahame - 1916 - 368 pages
...days On many a grassy plain; But since of late Elizabeth, And later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been. By which...fairies Were of the old profession, Their songs were Ave-Maries, Their dances were procession: But now, alas! they all are dead, Or gone beyond the seas;...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 1

1918 - 2030 pages
...later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been. •D U- V. 1_ I • • By which we note the fairies Were of the old profession; Their songs were Ave-Maries, Their dances were procession. But now, alas! they all are dead, Or gone beyond the seas;...
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Kipling's Sussex

Robert Thurston Hopkins - 1921 - 278 pages
...became " turrified " and fled from cruel old England. Bishop Corbet admits their Romish tendencies : " By which we note the fairies Were of the old profession, Their songs were Ave Mary's, Their dances a procession ; But now, alas, they all are dead, Or gone beyond the seas, Or farther...
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An Outline of Humor: Being a True Chronicle from Prehistoric Ages to the ...

Carolyn Wells - 1923 - 804 pages
...days On many a grassy plain; But, since of late Elizabeth, And later James, came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been. By which...fairies Were of the old profession, Their songs were Ave-Maries, Their dances were procession: But now, alas ! they all are dead, Or gone beyond the seas;...
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The Glory of the Garden

M. G. Kennedy-Bell - 1923 - 206 pages
...late Elizabeth, And later James came in, They never danced on any heath, As when the time hath bin. " By which we note the fairies Were of the old profession, Their songs were Ave Marias, Their dances were procession. But now, alas ! they all are dead, Or gone beyond the seas; Or...
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The School of Poetry: An Anthology Chosen for Young Readers

Alice Meynell - 1923 - 260 pages
...which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late Elizabeth By which we note the fairies Were of the old profession ; Their songs were Ave Mary's, Their dances were procession : But now, alas ! they all are dead, Or gone beyond the seas,...
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The Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 3

William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pages
...days On many a grassy plain ; Bnt since of late Elizabeth, And later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been. By which...Their dances were procession : But now, alas ! they all are dead, Or gone beyond the seas ; Or farther for religion fled, Or else they take their ease....
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The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets

Sir John Collings Squire - 1927 - 496 pages
...days On many a grassy plain ; But since of late Elizabeth And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been. By which...Fairies Were of the old profession. Their songs were Ave Marys, Their dances were Procession. But now, alas, they all are dead ; Or gone beyond the seas ; Or...
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