d ever

that summ

rom dawnin

ss eyebal

uld e'en in da

n the meadow

of a hun

scarr'd, f

at the fount

lay brown-fa

nd hard a

foul monst

lés slew i

ne slaying

rshes, pois

ague-mist and sh

f hell an

men has tha

estward it sto

wers,-the viney

sea ramparts o

rank, a serp

y in their fear, wha

ack Death,

ck blac

of man a

of ice s

surrender

d looks on

okens of doom

oil hid in

and leaves

, the mot

d's pure cr

ing, a sign

ens are pois

as when lambs

that is ha

flocks, wher

ther lays

touch of her

sehold before

, open and co

smitten and

e grave with a p

re crush'd in t

breathes with a

oom, men cry, the

lack Death,

ck blac

e and mai

s have built

ce and ru

th sharp

hid in the

e death, an

d peasant

, soft strok

nt invisi

ield or ban

s are flat

y and villa

oiced heral

the towers;

e pace baref

m the choir a

is lightle

pity in ea

f England, w

ant oak is

ves yearn for the

orld drink of th

cry, the cup of God

ack Death,

ck blac

d is hear

lament an

amenting

not be

tle faces f

rom the si

goes up fr

us in me

the weight

d the worm

errible barb

, this once

ith life-blo

her childre

on the Gol

arriors by war

ows of Hea

we lift up our

d eternal

avest Thys

e! to Thy fe

e hell and the

Air, from the terror

ck Death, Ch

ck blac

The Lernaean Hydr

and may have predisposed to its reception, was followed by mist, i

rd of in Central Asia in 1333; i

the ravages of the plague were immort

d by which the specific blood-poison of the plague relieved itself.

0 are said to have been buried

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who then formed the population of England, more tha

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