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II. TO ROBIN HOOD'S BAY.
We passed the pillars in the meadows rearedTo Robin Hood and Archer Little John,
When, having dined off monkish venison,
They shewed the Abbot why their bolts were feared;
Then sudden to the sea the farm lands cleared
By Saxon hatchets sloped, the moor looked on,
As purple as the day the fight was won
And the black raven on the Peak appeared;
And down we dropped toward bold Robin's bay—
The reefs ran dark and fateful to the tide,
Roof clung to roof as if they feared a wrong;
None hunt wild Robin now, o'er England wide
His deeds are cancelled for their gifts to song—
And hide-and-seek the peeping houses play.
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