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HUNTING SONG, FR. ZAPOLYA by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Poet Analysis

First Line: UP, UP! YE DAMES AND LASSES GAY!
Last Line: TO HUNT THE WOLF IN THE WOODS TO-DAY.
Subject(s): HUNTING; WOLVES; HUNTERS;
Up, up! ye dames, and lasses gay!
To the meadows trip away.
'Tis you must tend the flocks this morn,
And scare the small birds from the corn.
Not a soul at home may stay:
For the shepherds must go
With lance and bow
To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.

Leave the hearth and leave the house
To the cricket and the mouse:
Find grannam out a sunny seat,
With babe and lambkin at her feet.
Not a soul at home may stay:
For the shepherds must go
With lance and bow
To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.



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