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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Poems - Every Boy's Library - -Author: Robert Browning - -Release Date: May 30, 2013 [EBook #42850] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN *** - - - - -Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Paul Clark and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42850 ***</div> <div class="transnote"> <p>Transcriber's Note:</p> @@ -327,7 +290,7 @@ THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN</p> <tr><td class="td-title smcap"><a href="#THE_PIED_PIPER_OF_HAMELIN">The Pied Piper of Hamelin</a></td> <td class="tdr">11</td></tr> -<tr><td class="td-title smcap"><a href="#HERVE_RIEL">Hervé Riel</a></td> +<tr><td class="td-title smcap"><a href="#HERVE_RIEL">Hervé Riel</a></td> <td class="tdr">24</td></tr> <tr><td class="td-title smcap"><a href="#CAVALIER_TUNES">Cavalier Tunes</a></td> @@ -345,7 +308,7 @@ THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN</p> <tr><td class="td-title smcap"><a href="#CLIVE">Clive</a></td> <td class="tdr">41</td></tr> -<tr><td class="td-title smcap"><a href="#MULEYKEH">Muléykeh</a></td> +<tr><td class="td-title smcap"><a href="#MULEYKEH">Muléykeh</a></td> <td class="tdr">59</td></tr> <tr><td class="td-title smcap"><a href="#TRAY">Tray</a></td> @@ -557,7 +520,7 @@ THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN</p> <span class="i0">And step for step they followed dancing,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Until they came to the river Weser,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Wherein all plunged and perished!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">—Save one who, stout as Julius Cæsar,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">—Save one who, stout as Julius Cæsar,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Swam across and lived to carry<br /></span> <span class="i0">(As he, the manuscript he cherished)<br /></span> <span class="i0">To Rat-land home his commentary:<br /></span> @@ -776,14 +739,14 @@ THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN</p> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">So, Willy, let me and you be wipers<br /></span> <span class="i0">Of scores out with all men—especially pipers!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And, whether they pipe us free fróm rats or fróm mice,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And, whether they pipe us free fróm rats or fróm mice,<br /></span> <span class="i0">If we’ve promised them aught, let us keep our promise!<br /></span> </div></div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p> -<h2><a name="HERVE_RIEL" id="HERVE_RIEL">HERVÉ RIEL.</a></h2> +<h2><a name="HERVE_RIEL" id="HERVE_RIEL">HERVÉ RIEL.</a></h2> <div class="center"><div class="poem"> <h3>I</h3> @@ -852,17 +815,17 @@ THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN</p> <span class="i2">No such man of mark, and meet<br /></span> <span class="i2">With his betters to compete!<br /></span> <span class="i2">But a simple Breton sailor pressed by Tourville for the fleet,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A poor coasting-pilot he, Hervé Riel the Croisickese.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A poor coasting-pilot he, Hervé Riel the Croisickese.<br /></span> </div> <h3>VI</h3> <div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And “What mockery or malice have we here?” cries Hervé Riel:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And “What mockery or malice have we here?” cries Hervé Riel:<br /></span> <span class="i2">“Are you mad, you Malouins? Are you cowards, fools, or rogues?<br /></span> <span class="i0">Talk to me of rocks and shoals, me who took the soundings, tell<br /></span> <span class="i0">On my fingers every bank, every shallow, every swell<br /></span> -<span class="i2">’Twixt the offing here and Grève where the river disembogues?<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> +<span class="i2">’Twixt the offing here and Grève where the river disembogues?<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> <span class="i0">Are you bought by English gold? Is it love the lying’s for?<br /></span> <span class="i6">Morn and eve, night and day,<br /></span> <span class="i6">Have I piloted your bay,<br /></span> @@ -874,11 +837,11 @@ THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN</p> <span class="i2">Get this <i>Formidable</i> clear,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Make the others follow mine,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And I lead them, most and least, by a passage I know well,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Right to Solidor past Grève,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Right to Solidor past Grève,<br /></span> <span class="i4">And there lay them safe and sound;<br /></span> <span class="i4">And if one ship misbehave,<br /></span> <span class="i4">—Keel so much as grate the ground,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Why, I’ve nothing but my life,—here’s my head!” cries Hervé Riel.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Why, I’ve nothing but my life,—here’s my head!” cries Hervé Riel.<br /></span> </div> <h3>VII</h3> @@ -900,7 +863,7 @@ THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN</p> <span class="i2">Not a spar that comes to grief!<br /></span> <span class="i0">The peril, see, is past,<br /></span> <span class="i0">All are harboured to the last,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And just as Hervé Riel hollas “Anchor!”—sure as fate,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And just as Hervé Riel hollas “Anchor!”—sure as fate,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Up the English come—too late!<br /></span> </div> @@ -909,7 +872,7 @@ THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN</p> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">So, the storm subsides to calm:<br /></span> <span class="i2">They see the green trees wave<br /></span> -<span class="i2">On the heights o’erlooking Grève.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">On the heights o’erlooking Grève.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Hearts that bled are stanched with balm.<br /></span> <span class="i0">“Just our rapture to enhance,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Let the English rake the bay,<br /></span> @@ -922,7 +885,7 @@ THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN</p> <span class="i2">Let France, let France’s King<br /></span> <span class="i2">Thank the man that did the thing!”<br /></span> <span class="i0">What a shout, and all one word,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“Hervé Riel!”<br /></span> +<span class="i2">“Hervé Riel!”<br /></span> <span class="i0">As he stepped in front once more,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Not a symptom of surprise<br /></span> <span class="i2">In the frank blue Breton eyes,<br /></span> @@ -974,10 +937,10 @@ THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN</p> <span class="i0">Go to Paris: rank on rank<br /></span> <span class="i2">Search the heroes flung pell-mell<br /></span> <span class="i0">On the Louvre, face and flank!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You shall look long enough ere you come to Hervé Riel.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">You shall look long enough ere you come to Hervé Riel.<br /></span> <span class="i0">So, for better and for worse,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Hervé Riel, accept my verse!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In my verse, Hervé Riel, do thou once more<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Hervé Riel, accept my verse!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In my verse, Hervé Riel, do thou once more<br /></span> <span class="i0">Save the squadron, honour France, love thy wife the Belle Aurore!<br /></span> </div></div></div> @@ -1119,7 +1082,7 @@ FROM GHENT TO AIX.”</a></h2> <span class="i0">’Twas moonset at starting; but while we drew near<br /></span> <span class="i0">Lokeren, the cocks crew and twilight dawned clear:<br /></span> <span class="i0">At Boom, a great yellow star came out to see;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">At Düffeld, ’twas morning as plain as could be;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">At Düffeld, ’twas morning as plain as could be;<br /></span> <span class="i0">And from Mecheln church-steeple we heard the half chime,<br /></span> <span class="i0">So Joris broke silence with, “Yet there is time!”<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> </div><div class="stanza"> @@ -1364,7 +1327,7 @@ BRIDLE DREW UNTIL HE REACHED THE MOUND.”</p> <span class="i0">“Come Clive, tell us”—out I blurted—“what to tell in turn, years hence,<br /></span> <span class="i0">When my boy—suppose I have one—asks me on what evidence<br /></span> <span class="i0">I maintain my friend of Plassy proved a warrior every whit<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> -<span class="i0">Worth your Alexanders, Cæsars, Marlboroughs, and—what said Pitt?—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Worth your Alexanders, Cæsars, Marlboroughs, and—what said Pitt?—<br /></span> <span class="i0">Frederick the Fierce himself! Clive told me once”—I want to say—<br /></span> <span class="i0">“Which feat out of all those famous doings bore the bell away<br /></span> <span class="i0">—In his own calm estimation, mark you, not the mob’s rough guess—<br /></span> @@ -1580,48 +1543,48 @@ BRIDLE DREW UNTIL HE REACHED THE MOUND.”</p> <hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="MULEYKEH" id="MULEYKEH">MULÉYKEH.</a></h2> +<h2><a name="MULEYKEH" id="MULEYKEH">MULÉYKEH.</a></h2> <div class="center"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">If a stranger passed the tent of Hóseyn, he cried “A churl’s!”<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If a stranger passed the tent of Hóseyn, he cried “A churl’s!”<br /></span> <span class="i0">Or haply “God help the man who has neither salt nor bread!”<br /></span> <span class="i0">—“Nay,” would a friend exclaim, “he needs nor pity nor scorn<br /></span> <span class="i0">More than who spends small thought on the shore-sand, picking pearls,<br /></span> <span class="i0">—Holds but in light esteem the seed-sort, bears instead<br /></span> <span class="i0">On his breast a moon-like prize, some orb which of night makes morn.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“What if no flocks and herds enrich the son of Sinán?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">“What if no flocks and herds enrich the son of Sinán?<br /></span> <span class="i0">They went when his tribe was mulct, ten thousand camels the due,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Blood-value paid perforce for a murder done of old.<br /></span> <span class="i0">‘God gave them, let them go! But never since time began,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Muléykeh, peerless mare, owned master the match of you,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Muléykeh, peerless mare, owned master the match of you,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And you are my prize, my Pearl: I laugh at men’s land and gold!’<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“So in the pride of his soul laughs Hóseyn—and right, I say.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">“So in the pride of his soul laughs Hóseyn—and right, I say.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Do the ten steeds run a race of glory? Outstripping all,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Ever Muléykeh stands first steed at the victor’s staff.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Ever Muléykeh stands first steed at the victor’s staff.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Who started, the owner’s hope, gets shamed and named, that day.<br /></span> <span class="i0">‘Silence,’ or, last but one, is ‘The Cuffed,’ as we used to call<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Whom the paddock’s lord thrusts forth. Right, Hóseyn, I say, to laugh!”<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whom the paddock’s lord thrusts forth. Right, Hóseyn, I say, to laugh!”<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Boasts he Muléykeh the Pearl?” the stranger replies: “Be sure<br /></span> +<span class="i0">“Boasts he Muléykeh the Pearl?” the stranger replies: “Be sure<br /></span> <span class="i0">On him I waste nor scorn nor pity, but lavish both<br /></span> -<span class="i0">On Duhl the son of Sheybán, who withers away in heart<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For envy of Hóseyn’s luck. Such sickness admits no cure.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">On Duhl the son of Sheybán, who withers away in heart<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For envy of Hóseyn’s luck. Such sickness admits no cure.<br /></span> <span class="i0">A certain poet has sung, and sealed the same with an oath,<br /></span> <span class="i0">‘For the vulgar—flocks and herds! The Pearl is a prize apart.’”<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Lo, Duhl the son of Sheybán comes riding to Hóseyn’s tent,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Lo, Duhl the son of Sheybán comes riding to Hóseyn’s tent,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And he casts his saddle down, and enters and “Peace!” bids he.<br /></span> <span class="i0">“You are poor, I know the cause: my plenty shall mend the wrong.<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> <span class="i0">’Tis said of your Pearl—the price of a hundred camels spent<br /></span> <span class="i0">In her purchase were scarce ill paid: such prudence is far from me<br /></span> <span class="i0">Who proffer a thousand. Speak! Long parley may last too long.”<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Said Hóseyn, “You feed young beasts a many, of famous breed,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Slit-eared, unblemished, fat, true offspring of Múzennem:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Said Hóseyn, “You feed young beasts a many, of famous breed,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Slit-eared, unblemished, fat, true offspring of Múzennem:<br /></span> <span class="i0">There stumbles no weak-eyed she in the line as it climbs the hill.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But I love Muléykeh’s face: her forefront whitens indeed<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But I love Muléykeh’s face: her forefront whitens indeed<br /></span> <span class="i0">Like a yellowish wave’s cream-crest. Your camels—go gaze on them!<br /></span> <span class="i0">Her fetlock is foam-splashed too. Myself am the richer still.”<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> @@ -1632,11 +1595,11 @@ BRIDLE DREW UNTIL HE REACHED THE MOUND.”</p> <span class="i0">Beg for his sake the Pearl! Be God the rewarder, since<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> <span class="i0">God pays debts seven for one: who squanders on Him shows thrift.’”<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Said Hóseyn, “God gives each man one life, like a lamp, then gives<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Said Hóseyn, “God gives each man one life, like a lamp, then gives<br /></span> <span class="i0">That lamp due measure of oil: lamp lighted—hold high, wave wide<br /></span> <span class="i0">Its comfort for others to share! once quench it, what help is left?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The oil of your lamp is your son: I shine while Muléykeh lives.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Would I beg your son to cheer my dark if Muléykeh died?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The oil of your lamp is your son: I shine while Muléykeh lives.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Would I beg your son to cheer my dark if Muléykeh died?<br /></span> <span class="i0">It is life against life: what good avails to the life-bereft?”<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Another year, and—hist! What craft is it Duhl designs?<br /></span> @@ -1644,7 +1607,7 @@ BRIDLE DREW UNTIL HE REACHED THE MOUND.”</p> <span class="i0">But, creeping behind, he gropes his stealthy way by the trench<br /></span> <span class="i0">Half-round till he finds the flap in the folding, for night combines<br /></span> <span class="i0">With the robber—and such is he: Duhl, covetous up to crime,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Must wring from Hóseyn’s grasp the Pearl, by whatever the wrench.<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> +<span class="i0">Must wring from Hóseyn’s grasp the Pearl, by whatever the wrench.<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">“He was hunger-bitten, I heard: I tempted with half my store,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And a gibe was all my thanks. Is he generous like Spring dew?<br /></span> @@ -1660,11 +1623,11 @@ BRIDLE DREW UNTIL HE REACHED THE MOUND.”</p> <span class="i0">I have found me a peeping-place: breast, bury your breathing while<br /></span> <span class="i0">I explore for myself! Now, breathe! He deceived me not, the spy!<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“As he said—there lies in peace Hóseyn—how happy! Beside<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> +<span class="i0">“As he said—there lies in peace Hóseyn—how happy! Beside<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> <span class="i0">Stands tethered the Pearl: thrice winds her headstall about his wrist:<br /></span> <span class="i0">’Tis therefore he sleeps so sound—the moon through the roof reveals.<br /></span> <span class="i0">And, loose on his left, stands too that other, known far and wide,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Buhéyseh, her sister born: fleet is she yet ever missed<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Buhéyseh, her sister born: fleet is she yet ever missed<br /></span> <span class="i0">The winning tail’s fire-flash a-stream past the thunderous heels.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">“No less she stands saddled and bridled, this second, in case some thief<br /></span> @@ -1679,42 +1642,42 @@ BRIDLE DREW UNTIL HE REACHED THE MOUND.”</p> <span class="i0">He springs on the Pearl, is launched on the desert like bolt from bow.<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> <span class="i0">Up starts our plundered man: from his breast though the heart be ripped,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Yet his mind has the mastery: behold, in a minute more,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He is out and off and away on Buhéyseh, whose worth we know!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He is out and off and away on Buhéyseh, whose worth we know!<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And Hóseyn—his blood turns flame, he has learned long since to ride,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And Buhéyseh does her part,—they gain—they are gaining fast<br /></span> -<span class="i0">On the fugitive pair, and Duhl has Ed-Dárraj to cross and quit,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And to reach the ridge El-Sabán,—no safety till that he spied!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And Buhéyseh is, bound by bound, but a horse-length off at last,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And Hóseyn—his blood turns flame, he has learned long since to ride,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And Buhéyseh does her part,—they gain—they are gaining fast<br /></span> +<span class="i0">On the fugitive pair, and Duhl has Ed-Dárraj to cross and quit,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And to reach the ridge El-Sabán,—no safety till that he spied!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And Buhéyseh is, bound by bound, but a horse-length off at last,<br /></span> <span class="i0">For the Pearl has missed the tap of the heel, the touch of the bit.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">She shortens her stride, she chafes at her rider the strange and queer:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Buhéyseh is mad with hope—beat sister she shall and must,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Buhéyseh is mad with hope—beat sister she shall and must,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Though Duhl, of the hand and heel so clumsy, she has to thank.<br /></span> <span class="i0">She is near now, nose by tail—they are neck by croup—joy! fear!<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span> -<span class="i0">What folly makes Hóseyn shout “Dog Duhl, Damned son of the Dust,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">What folly makes Hóseyn shout “Dog Duhl, Damned son of the Dust,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Touch the right ear and press with your foot my Pearl’s left flank!”<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And Duhl was wise at the word, and Muléykeh as prompt perceived<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And Duhl was wise at the word, and Muléykeh as prompt perceived<br /></span> <span class="i0">Who was urging redoubled pace, and to hear him was to obey,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And a leap indeed gave she, and evanished for evermore.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And Hóseyn looked one long last look as who, all bereaved,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And Hóseyn looked one long last look as who, all bereaved,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Looks, fain to follow the dead so far as the living may:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then he turned Buhéyseh’s neck slow homeward, weeping sore.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Then he turned Buhéyseh’s neck slow homeward, weeping sore.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And, lo, in the sunrise, still sat Hóseyn upon the ground<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Weeping: and neighbours came, the tribesmen of Bénu-Asád<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And, lo, in the sunrise, still sat Hóseyn upon the ground<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Weeping: and neighbours came, the tribesmen of Bénu-Asád<br /></span> <span class="i0">In the vale of green Er-Rass, and they questioned him of his grief;<br /></span> <span class="i0">And he told from first to last how, serpent-like, Duhl had wound<br /></span> <span class="i0">His way to the nest, and how Duhl rode like an ape, so bad!<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span> -<span class="i0">And how Buhéyseh did wonders, yet Pearl remained with the thief.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And how Buhéyseh did wonders, yet Pearl remained with the thief.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And they jeered him, one and all: “Poor Hóseyn is crazed past hope!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And they jeered him, one and all: “Poor Hóseyn is crazed past hope!<br /></span> <span class="i0">How else had he wrought himself his ruin, in fortune’s spite?<br /></span> <span class="i0">To have simply held the tongue were a task for boy or girl,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And here were Muléykeh again, the eyed like an antelope,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And here were Muléykeh again, the eyed like an antelope,<br /></span> <span class="i0">The child of his heart by day, the wife of his breast by night!”—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“And the beaten in speed!” wept Hóseyn. “You never have loved my Pearl.”<br /></span> +<span class="i0">“And the beaten in speed!” wept Hóseyn. “You never have loved my Pearl.”<br /></span> </div></div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span></p> @@ -2032,7 +1995,7 @@ BRIDLE DREW UNTIL HE REACHED THE MOUND.”</p> <span class="i0">And the church deserves the praise.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">They grubbed with a will: and at length—<i>O cor</i><br /></span> -<span class="i2"><i>Humanum, pectora cæca</i>, and the rest!—<br /></span> +<span class="i2"><i>Humanum, pectora cæca</i>, and the rest!—<br /></span> <span class="i0">They found—no gaud they were prying for,<br /></span> <span class="i2">No ring, no rose, but—who would have guessed?—<br /></span> <span class="i0">A double Louis-d’or!<br /></span> @@ -2535,386 +2498,6 @@ GLOVE.”</p> <p class="p4 center">THE END. </p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other -Poems, by Robert Browning - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN *** - -***** This file should be named 42850-h.htm or 42850-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/8/5/42850/ - -Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Paul Clark and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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