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Posted By: Jim Dixon
18-May-10 - 07:18 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: My Lagan Love: Beetle's horn?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Lagan Love: Beetle's horn?
Exerpt from "Elegy on My Dying Ass, Peter" in The works of Peter Pindar [pseud. of John Wolcot], Volume 3 (London: John Walker, 1794), page 151:Pleas'd will I tell how oft we us'd to roam;
How oft we wander'd at the peep of morn;
Till Night had wrapp'd the world in spectred gloom,
And Silence listen'd to the beetle's horn.
Excerpt from "The Sylph" in The Evening Fire-side, or Literary Miscellany, (Philadelphia) Vol. 2, No. 11, March 15, 1806, page 82:But this offspring of the morn
Clos'd his short career in night,
Ere was heard the beetle's horn,
Or the night-bird wing'd its flight.
Excerpt from "Terrors of Imagination" in Terrors of Imagination and Other Poems by John William Smith (London: C. Cradock and W. Joy, 1814), page 28:The elfin fairies, that at close of eve,
Forth from their caverns in the neighb'ring hills,
Call'd by the beetle's horn and owlet's hoot
To trip it mirthfully upon the green,...
Excerpt from "Night" in The Knickerbocker, Vol. 6, No. 3, Sept. 1835, page 261:As the tears from angels falling,
Turn to diamonds in each flower,
And the beetle's horn is calling
Fairies to the greenwood bower;...