| 568 pages
...left alone to die ? How would ye bear to draw your latest breath, 260 Where all that's wretched paves the way for death ? Such is that room which one rude beam divides, And naked rafters form the sloping sides ; Where the vile bands that bind the thatch are seen, And lath and mud are all that lie... | |
| Arthur Finley Scott - English poetry - 1957 - 240 pages
...There, Victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends. (*) Such is that room which one rude beam divides, And naked rafters form the sloping sides; Where the vile bands that bind the thatch are seen, And lath and mud are all that lie... | |
| Henry Allon - 1882 - 594 pages
...rarely seen? Why does it happen that Crabbe's description of a peasant's dwelling is so often true? Such is that room which one rude beam divides, And naked rafters from the sloping sides, Where the vile bands that bind the thatch are seen, And lath and mud are all... | |
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