 | André Schüller - Literature and morals - 2002 - 372 pages
...they hover. And with leaves andflow'rs do cover The friendless bodies ofunburied men. Call unto this funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks, that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm, — But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,... | |
 | Christine Wilkie-Stibbs - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 232 pages
...Subversions, l67. 79. The extended quotation reads, "Call for The robin redbreast, and The wren, / Since o 'er shady groves they hover, /And with leaves and flowers do cover /The friendless bodies ofunburied men, /For with his nails he'll dig them up again. They would not bury him because he died... | |
 | George Saintsbury - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 489 pages
...Cor. ' Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren, \Corndia doth this tn several farms of distraction. Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves...cover The friendless bodies of unburied men, Call unto bis funeral dole The ant, the field mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 300 pages
...Marcello's body (her song is given in italics, her spoken words in roman): Call for the Robin- Red-rest and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies ofunburied men. Call unto his funeral Dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks,... | |
 | C J Ackerley - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 97 pages
...Cornelia, and in V.iv Cornelia sings a dirge over Marcello 's dead body: Call for the robin-red breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm: But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For... | |
 | Thomas Rist - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 188 pages
...they hover, And with leaves and flow'rs do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto this funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks, that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm...101 This song over the dead fondly invokes each animal... | |
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Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall... 
