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Title: Birket Foster's pictures of English landscape
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899 Dalziel, George, 1815-1902 Dalziel, Edward, 1817-1905
Subjects: Landscapes
Publisher: London, New York, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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1 II. DONKEYS ON THE HEATH. Wandeking thralls of wandering master,Hobbled, harness-galled and rough, Round the gnarled thorn we pasture,Picking scanty fare and tough. What to us are wind and weather,Who ask no mans pains or pity ? Better toil through gorse and heatherThan through shrill and stifling eity. Better wood-smoke sharp and fragrantThan the alleys odours foul; Better serve a merry vagrant Than bear costers stripe and scowl. Like our gipsy lords, disdaining City comfort, city care,Leave us, rough but uncomplaining, To our scanty moorland fare.
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III. THE MILL. Black and weather-warped and old,Looking oer the windy wold,Gaunt and grim and rearing highIts ragged sails against the sky,For many a year hath stood the mill;Hath heard the plovers eager cry,Hath seen the blue cloud-shadows flyAcross the heath, athwart the hill.Births and deaths, with lives between,Of many a miller, it hath seen;Many a pair of stones worn out,Many a set of gearing stout,But change of fashion, time and tide,The ancient mill hath still defied.In its place upon the hill—Sweeping sails or standing still—Emblem of enduring will.Serving with a constant mind,Though it serve the inconstant wind.

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