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...stream." In like manner we are told by Cowper : " Thus all through merry Islington These gambols did he play, Until he came unto the wash Of Edmonton so gay...like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play." These images are homely, but are not on that account less expressive. The " trundling mop" simply expresses...

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