Coleridge: CHRISTABEL Part I 1 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock, 2 And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; 3 Tu---whit!---Tu---whoo! 4 And hark, again! the crowing cock, 5 How drowsily it crew. 6 Sir Leoline, the Baron rich, 7 Hath a toothless mastiff bitch; 8 From her kennel beneath the rock 9 She maketh answer to the clock, 10 Four for the quarters, and twelve for the hour; 11 Ever and aye, by shine and shower, 12 Sixteen short howls, not …
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…h other; 668 To mutter and mock a broken charm, 669 To dally with wrong that does no harm. 670 Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty 671 At each wild word to feel within 672 A sweet recoil of love and pity. 673 And what, if in a world of sin 674 (O sorrow and shame should this be true!) 675 Such giddiness of heart and brain 676 Comes seldom save from rage and pain, 677 So talks as it's most used to do. 1801.