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THE

PATOIS POEMS

OF THE

CHANNEL

ISLANDS.

(From a drawing by the late Mr. Peter Le Lievre.)

Damaris harangueth her neighbours,

And bitterly blameth the States,
For enacting such wide demolition,

Like aught but beneficent Fates!

"Lamentations of Damaris," page 5.

οἱ ποιηταὶ ἀπὸ κρηνῶν μελιῤῥύτων ἐκ Μουσῶν κήπων τινῶν καὶ
ναπῶν δρεπόμενοι τὰ μέλη ἡμῖν φέρουσιν ὥσπερ μέλιτται.
Plato, Ion. p. 534, A.

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