For this Hallows poem into fog lands meander, her midnight rides come wondrous dreams or nights a thunder, doom and terror.
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he Hag is astride,
This night for to ride;
The Devill and shee together:
Through thick, and through thin,
Now out, and then in,
Though ne’r so foule be the weather.
A Thorn or a Burr
She takes for a Spurre:
With a lash of a Bramble she rides now,
Through Brakes and through Bryars,
O’re Ditches, and Mires,
She followes the Spirit that guides now.
No Beast, for his food,
Dares now range the wood;
But husht in his laire he lies lurking:
While mischeifs, by these,
On Land and on Seas,
At noone of Night are working,
The storme will arise,
And trouble the skies;
This night, and more for the wonder,
The ghost from the Tomb
Affrighted shall come,
Cal’d out by the clap of the Thunder.
— Robert Herrick, The Hag
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The Professor's Convatorium 
His spelling’s bloody awful!
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Oh I know! Isn’t it just bloody appalling!? Damn Englishmen trying to be poets! Pfffft! What do they teach on that horrendously damp, wet, cold, silly Cricket-playing island over there!!!? Can we pull the plug and let it sink to the bottom of the North Sea and English Channel!? Geeezzz. let’s be DONE with tha whole lot, eh! 🙄🤭
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You shut up or we’ll come over and take control of your scabby bit of land again! * Mad face *
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😄 (tries to hide his trembling hands and quivering bottom lip)
Oh YEAH you highly gifted vocabularized Red Coat!? Just TRY to take my scabs off my Stars-n-Striped body! 🤨 I’ll show YOU how we take care of smart-worded immigrants in these Dixie parts! We getta a looong juss REEL gooood wit our aminals over heeere! (starts playin his banjo while the pigs squeal & coons scream!)
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Btw Hariod, I hope you received my email to you (7-8 days ago?) entitled “Human Articulation.” Yes? Maybe? Bugger off? 😉
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Oh, man, I have a whole pile of messages I’ve not gotten round to replying to yet — I’ve just been a bit snowed-under on that front. Sorry mate. Either way, I know Jack Shit about ‘Human Articulation’ I’m afraid. What is it, yoga or summat?
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