The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Etc
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I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge. GODIVA. 197 To watch the three tall spires ; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this : — Not only we, the latest seed of Time, New men, that in the flying of a wheel Cry down the past, not only we, that prate Of rights and wrongs, have loved the people well, And loathed to see them overtaxed ; but she Did more, and underwent, and overcame, The woman of a thousand summers back, Godiva, wife to that g...rim Earl, who ruled In Coventry : for when he laid a tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamoring, " If we pay, we starve ! She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode About the hall, among his dogs, alone. His beard a foot before him, and his hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And prayed him, " If they pay this tax, they starve.** Whereat he stared, replying half-amazed, *' You would not let your little finger ache For such as these ? " — " But I would die," said she.
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