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For the Parsons are dumb dogs, turning round, And scratching their hole in the warmest ground, And laying them down in the sun to wink, Drowsing, and dreaming, and thinking they think. As they mumble the marrowless bones of morals, Like toothless children gnawing their corals, Gnawing their corals to soothe their gums With a kind of watery thought that comes.
For the Parsons are dumb dogs, turning round, And scratching their hole in the warmest ground, And laying them down in the sun to wink, Drowsing, and dreaming, and thinking they think. As they mumble the marrowless bones of morals, Like toothless children gnawing their corals, Gnawing their corals to soothe their gums With a kind of watery thought that comes.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- W. C. Smith (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 345 · printed citation: W. C. Smith (Borland Hall). · compiler notes excluded
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