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" tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill. . There, each trim lass, that skims the milky store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowls allots; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund... "
Observations on a Tour Through the Highlands and Part of the Western Isles ... - Page 117
by Thomas Garnett - 1811
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The English Parnassus: An Anthology, Chiefly of Longer Poems

William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 pages
...feet ; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet 20 Beneath each birken shade on mead or hill. There each trim lass that skims the milky store To...creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage-door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There every herd, by sad experience, knows...
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English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement

George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...thy feet, 20 Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet Beneath each birken shade on mead or hill. . tribes2 their creamy bowl allots; By night they sip it round the cottage door, 25 While airy minstrels...
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English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 pages
...thy feet, Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet Beneath each birken shade on mead or hill. There each trim lass that skims the milky store To...cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There every herd, by sad experience, knows How, winged with fate, their elf -shot arrows fly; When...
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Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity: L'allegro, Il Penseroso ...

John Milton - 1918 - 236 pages
...standing fee." There is the same allusion in Collins' Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands: "There, each trim lass that skims the milky store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots." 108. Shadowy, ie without substance, unreal. 109. Some say that here and in Coriolanus, v. 6. 37, ««a?is...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...thy feet ; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet Beneath each birken shade on mead or hill. There each trim lass that skims the milky store To...creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage-door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There every herd, by sad experience, knows...
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The Medieval Revival and Its Influence on the Romantic Movement

R. R. Agrawal - 1990 - 316 pages
...supposed to make the domestic animals sick. Collins poetizes this popular belief in the following lines: There, each trim lass, that skims the milky store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowls allots; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes....
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Romantic Returns: Superstition, Imagination, History

Deborah Elise White - 2000 - 252 pages
...thy feet; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet 20 Beneath each birken shade on mead or hill. There each trim lass that skims the milky store To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots; 165 By night they sip it round the cottage-door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There every...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 34

1846 - 778 pages
...•• Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, or mead, or hill; There each trim lass that skims the milky store. To...the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots ; By night (her sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There every herd by sad...
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