Where no sun shines through the live-long day,
Because of the blue-wreathed mist,
Where the cockatrice creeps her foul egg to lay,
And the speckled snake has hissed

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Reported in: Doris Mary Armitage, The Taylors of Ongar (W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1939), p. 207

My Mother (1804)

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