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The poetical works of John Nicholson

... Carefully edited from the original editions, with additional notes and a sketch of his life and writings. By W. G. Hird
 

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Three times to the Strid his brave master he bore,
And thrice on that day the deep gulf he leaped o'er.
Whenever they hunted the boar or the fox,
The hoofs of his hunter would ring on the rocks;
A better in Craven there never was tried,
And none but brave Clapham could come near his side.