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" And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as, one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door till folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed Where the long grasses stifle the water within the stream's bed;... "
Bentley's Miscellany - Page 67
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Poems: A blot in the 'scutcheon

Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...Till deliverance come With the Spring-time, — so agonized Saul, Drear and stark, blind and dumb. Then I tuned my harp, — took off the lilies We twine...one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door Till folding be done ; — They are white and untorn by the bushes, For lo, they have fed Where the...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 39

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 686 pages
...belong to the majority of this collection. Many of its lines are fluent and musical, with a flow aud music such as this : Then I tuned my harp, — took...one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door, till folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed Where the long...
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Men and Women

Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...till deliverance come With the spring-tune, — so agonized Saul, drear and stark, blind and dumb. 5. Then I tuned my harp, — took off the lilies we twine...one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door, till folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed Where the long...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 39

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 672 pages
...collection. Many of its lines are fluent and musical, with a flow and music such as this : Then I toned my harp, — took off the lilies we twine round its...one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door, till folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed Where the long...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 pages
...Where shall one turn for verse to excel the pastoral effect of the following lines from ' Saul ' ? And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as,...one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door till folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for, lo, they have fed Where the long...
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Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...till deliverance come With the spring-time, — so agonised Saul, drear and stark, blind and dumb. V. Then I tuned my harp, — took off the lilies we twine...one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door, till folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed Where the long...
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Men and Women

Robert Browning - 1863 - 360 pages
...agonized Saul, drear and stark, blind and dumb. 5. Then I tuned my harp, — took off the lilies we twine Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide —...one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door, till folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed Where the long...
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Poems, Volume 2

Robert Browning - 1864 - 436 pages
...Till deliverance come With the Spring-time, — so agonized Saul, Drear and stark, blind and dumb. « Then I tuned my harp, — took off the lilies We twine...one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door Till folding be done ; — They are white and untorn by the bushes, For lo, they have fed Where the...
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The Eagle: A Magazine, Volumes 5-6

1867 - 832 pages
...tells, in the same glorious rushing rhythm, how David poured from his harp " first the tune all the sheep know as, one after one, so docile they come to the pen-door," then the " help-tune of the reapers, their wine-song, when hand presses hand, and eye quickens eye...
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Selections from [his] Poetical Works

Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...till deliverance come With the spring-time, — so agonized Saul, drear and stark, blind and dumb. v. Then I tuned my harp, — took off the lilies we twine...one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door till folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed Where the long...
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