A POET'S NOTEBOOK

A POET'S NOTEBOOK

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William Shakespeare : "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows"
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William Shakespeare : "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows"

Excerpt from "A Midsummer Night's Deam," Act II, Scene 1

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William Shakespeare : "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows"
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Oberon:

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight;
And there the snake throws her enamell’d skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:
And with…

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