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The Poetry of Chaucer

by George Meredith 1828–1909

From Poems — Volume 1

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GREY with all honours of age! but fresh-featured and ruddy
As dawn when the drowsy farm-yard has thrice heard Chaunticlere.
Tender to tearfulness—childlike, and manly, and motherly;
Here beats true English blood richest joyance on sweet English ground.

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