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The Scholar-GipsyBY MATTHEW ARNOLDGo, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill;Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes!No longer leave thy wistful flock unfed,Nor let thy bawling fellows rack their throats,Nor the cropp’d herbage shoot another head.But when the fields are still,And the tired men and dogs all gone to rest,And only the white sheepContinue reading “The Scholar-Gipsy : Matthew Arnold : : August Poems : : Months Poems : :”