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"Give me my bow," said Robin Hood, "An arrow give to me;
And where 't is shot mark thou that spot, For there my grave shall be
"Then Little John did make no sign, And not a word he spake;
But he smiled, altho' wi...

On the wide lawn the snow lay deep,
Ridged o’er with many a drifted heap;
The wind that through the pine-trees
The naked elm-boughs tossed and swung;

With coat of Lincoln green and mantle too,
And horn of ivory mouth, and buckle bright,
And arrows wing'd with peacock-feathers light,
And trusty bow well gather'd of the yew,--Stands Robin Hood: -- and near, with eyes of

The trees in Sherwood forest are old and good,--The grass beneath them now is dimly green;
Are they deserted all
Is no young
With loose-slung bugle met within the wood:

Many are the deceivers:
The suburban matron, proper in the supermarket, list in hand so she won't suddenly fly, buying her Duz and Chuck Wagon dog food, meanwhile ascending from earth, letting her stomach fill up with helium, letting her arms...

Robin Hood is an outlaw bold Under the greenwood tree;
Bird, nor stag, nor morning air Is more at large than he
They sent against him twenty men, Who joined him laughing-eyed;
They sent against him thirty more, And they remained bes...

It was thy noble soul and high
That caus'd these breathings of my grateful
You sav'd a soul from Pluto's dreary
You sav'd his body and he asks no

Robin the outlaw
Is there not a
Of freedom in the name
-- It tells the story Of clenched oaks, with branches bow'd and hoary,