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...the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped: And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,...

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...them ? What «a;d tiwy - They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and Mashy songs Grate on iheir scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep...But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, K»t imvarfily, and foul contagion spread ; Beside; what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...

...corrupt church's unresponsiveness to hungry parishioners and comes from Milton's "Lycidas": The hungry sheep look up and are not fed But swoln with wind,...rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.29 In the era of Johnson's and Nixon's presidencies, such tales seemed no more feverish than...

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...phrase of the poem, 'And were not fed', Causley directs us to Milton's 'Lycidas', and those whose . . . lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes...wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed ... Here 'scrannel' means thin, lean, meagre, and is a perfect word for a cynical government's...