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Peacock Pie

by Walter de la Mare

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Grim

Beside the blaze of forty fires
     Giant Grim doth sit,
  Roasting a thick-woolled mountain sheep
     Upon an iron spit.
  Above him wheels the winter sky,
     Beneath him, fathoms deep,
  Lies hidden in the valley mists
     A village fast asleep —-
  Save for one restive hungry dog
     That, snuffing towards the height,
  Smells Grim’s broiled supper-meat, and spies
  His watch-fire twinkling bright.

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