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The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton

with an essay on the Rowley poems by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat and a memoir by Edward Bell

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[Minst.]
With pacing step the lion moves along,
William his iron-woven bow he bends,

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With might alych the rolling thunder strong,
The lion in a roar his sprite forth sends.
Go, slay the lion in his blood-stained den,
But be thine arrow dry from blood of other men.