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Thread #2812   Message #12496
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18-Sep-97 - 04:30 PM
Thread Name: LYR Correction: To Althea From Prison
Subject: RE: LYR Correction: To Althea From Prison
When I cover the Cavalier Poets in my English literature class, I work from a textbook which uses the following as the third verse:

When, like committed linnets, I/ With shriller throat shall sing/ The sweetness, mercy, majesty/ And glories of my king;/ When I shall voice aloud how good/ He is, how great should be,/ Enlarged winds, that curl the flood/ Know no such liberty."

This, I think, is the verse to which Alan is referring.