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Things New and Old Item 12: Lines on a Gravestone – a Poem
This is the twelfth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) LINES ON A GRAVESTONE, WITHOUT INSCRIPTION, IN THE CHAPEL YARD AT DARTMOOR PRISON. Beneath this plain and silent stone, Which hath no name engraved thereon- No words of Holy Writ, to tell To…
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Things New and Old Item 10: Dartmeet – a Poem
This is the tenth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876). DART-MEET From the Visitors’ Book at T. French’s Cottage. A maiden fair from the West came down, Clad in a dress of the brightest brown ; ’Twas trimmed all o’er with a silv’ry…
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Things New and Old Item 18: A Poem on Widecombe-in-the-Moor by Jonas Coaker
This is the eighteenth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) A POEM ON WIDECOMBE-IN-THE-MOOR. BY JONAS COAKER, THE DARTMOOR POET. And now romantic Widecombe Shall be the subject of my rhyme, It seems there is abundant room To speak upon it at this…