Robin Hood
John Keats
1795 to 1821
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No! those days are gone away,
And their ______ are old and gray,
And their minutes buried all
______ the down-trodden pall
Of the leaves of many years:
______ times have winter's shears,
Frozen North, and chilling East,
______ tempests to the feast
Of the forest's whispering fleeces,
______ men knew nor rent nor leases.
No, the ______ sounds no more,
And the twanging bow no more;
______ is the ivory shrill
Past the heath and up ______ hill;
There is no mid-forest laugh,
Where lone Echo ______ the half
To some wight, amaz'd to hear
Jesting, ______ in forest drear.
On the fairest time of ______
You may go, with sun or moon,
Or the ______ stars to light you,
Or the polar ray to ______ you;
But you never may behold
Little John, or ______ bold;
Never one, of all the clan,
Thrumming on ______ empty can
Some old hunting ditty, while
He doth ______ green way beguile
To fair hostess Merriment,
Down beside ______ pasture Trent;
For he left the merry tale
Messenger ______ spicy ale.
Gone, the merry morris din;
Gone, ______ song of Gamelyn;
Gone, the tough-belted outlaw
Idling in ______ "grenè shawe;"
All are gone away and past!
______ if Robin should be cast
Sudden from his turfed grave,
And if Marian should have
Once again her forest days,
She would weep, and he would craze:
He would swear, for all his oaks,
Fall'n beneath the dockyard strokes,
______ rotted on the briny seas;
She would weep that ______ wild bees
Sang not to her—strange! that honey
Can't ______ got without hard money!
So it is: yet ______ us sing,
Honour to the old bow-string!
Honour to ______ bugle-horn!
Honour to the woods unshorn!
Honour to the ______ green!
Honour to the archer keen!
Honour to tight ______ John,
And the horse he rode upon!
Honour to ______ Robin Hood,
Sleeping in the underwood!
Honour to maid Marian,
And to all the Sherwood-clan!
Though their days have ______ by
Let us two a burden try.