Birds and flowers, or, Lays and lyrics of rural life (1873)
Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888, Giacomelli, Hector, 1822-1904 · London ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons · leaf 90
)oil,But he did the men of war eschew; There were lowly seifs who tilled the soil,But with toilinc: serfs he had nought to do. THE MANDRAKE. Lut now and then might with him be seenTwo other old men with look jDrofound, Who peered mid the leaves of the ]\Iandrakegreen,And lightened with care the… … For the king was sick, and of help had need :Or he had a foe whom art must quell, So he sent to the learned man with speedTo gather for him a Mandrake spell. THE MANDRAKE. And at night, when the moon was at the full,When the air was still and the stars were out, Came the three the Mandrake root to…
