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First Line: Grey with all honours of age! But fresh-featured and ruddy
Last Line: Here beats true english blood richest joyance on sweet english ground.
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Poetry & Poets


GREY with all honours of age! but fresh-featured and ruddy
As dawn when the drowsy farm-yard has thrice heard Chaunticlere.
Tender to tearfulness -- childlike, and manly, and motherly;
Here beats true English blood richest joyance on sweet English ground.





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