Time & Brevity
Jump-to-Glory Jane: XVIII
From Poems — Volume 3
Time & Brevity
The villagers might call them mad;
An endless holiday they had,
Of pleasure in a serious work:
They taught by leaps where perils lurk,
And with the lambkins practised sports
For ’scaping Satan’s pounds and quarts.
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Meredith, George. “Jump-to-Glory Jane: XVIII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meredith/176/.
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Meredith, George. “Jump-to-Glory Jane: XVIII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meredith/176/.
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