{"product_id":"2940013474994","title":"PUCK OF POOK'S HILL","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeland's Sword\u003cbr\u003e   Puck's Song\u003cbr\u003e   A Tree Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYoung Men at the Manor\u003cbr\u003e   Sir Richard's Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Knights of the Joyous Venture\u003cbr\u003e   Harp Song of the Dane Women\u003cbr\u003e   Thorkild's Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOld Men at Pevensey\u003cbr\u003e   The Runes on Weland's Sword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Centurion of the Thirtieth\u003cbr\u003e   'Cities and Thrones and Powers'\u003cbr\u003e   A British-Roman Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the Great Wall\u003cbr\u003e   A Song to Mithras\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Winged Hats\u003cbr\u003e   A Pict Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHal o' the Draft\u003cbr\u003e   'Prophets have honour all over the Earth'\u003cbr\u003e   A Smugglers' Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Dymchurch Flit'\u003cbr\u003e   The Bee Boy's Song\u003cbr\u003e   A Three-Part Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Treasure and the Law\u003cbr\u003e   Song of the Fifth River\u003cbr\u003e   The Children's Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWELAND'S SWORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePuck's Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  See you the dimpled track that runs,\u003cbr\u003e  All hollow through the wheat?\u003cbr\u003e  O that was where they hauled the guns\u003cbr\u003e  That smote King Philip's fleet!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  See you our little mill that clacks,\u003cbr\u003e  So busy by the brook?\u003cbr\u003e  She has ground her corn and paid her tax\u003cbr\u003e  Ever since Domesday Book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  See you our stilly woods of oak,\u003cbr\u003e  And the dread ditch beside?\u003cbr\u003e  O that was where the Saxons broke,\u003cbr\u003e  On the day that Harold died!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  See you the windy levels spread\u003cbr\u003e  About the gates of Rye?\u003cbr\u003e  O that was where the Northmen fled,\u003cbr\u003e  When Alfred's ships came by!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  See you our pastures wide and lone,\u003cbr\u003e  Where the red oxen browse?\u003cbr\u003e  O there was a City thronged and known,\u003cbr\u003e  Ere London boasted a house!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  And see you, after rain, the trace\u003cbr\u003e  Of mound and ditch and wall?\u003cbr\u003e  O that was a Legion's camping-place,\u003cbr\u003e  When Caesar sailed from Gaul!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  And see you marks that show and fade,\u003cbr\u003e  Like shadows on the Downs?\u003cbr\u003e  O they are the lines the Flint Men made,\u003cbr\u003e  To guard their wondrous towns!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Trackway and Camp and City lost,\u003cbr\u003e  Salt Marsh where now is corn;\u003cbr\u003e  Old Wars, old Peace, old Arts that cease,\u003cbr\u003e  And so was England born!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  She is not any common Earth,\u003cbr\u003e  Water or Wood or Air,\u003cbr\u003e  But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye,\u003cbr\u003e  Where you and I will fare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they\u003cbr\u003ecould remember of Midsummer Night's Dream.  Their father had made them\u003cbr\u003ea small play out of the big Shakespeare one, and they had rehearsed it\u003cbr\u003ewith him and with their mother till they could say it by heart.  They\u003cbr\u003ebegan when Nick Bottom the weaver comes out of the bushes with a\u003cbr\u003edonkey's head on his shoulders, and finds Titania, Queen of the\u003cbr\u003eFairies, asleep.  Then they skipped to the part where Bottom asks three\u003cbr\u003elittle fairies to scratch his head and bring him honey, and they ended\u003cbr\u003ewhere he falls asleep in Titania's arms.  Dan was Puck and Nick Bottom,\u003cbr\u003eas well as all three Fairies.  He wore a pointy-cloth cap for Puck, and\u003cbr\u003ea paper donkey's head out of a Christmas cracker--but it tore if you\u003cbr\u003ewere not careful--for Bottom.  Una was Titania, with a wreath of\u003cbr\u003ecolumbines and a foxglove wand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Theatre lay in a meadow called the Long Slip.  A little\u003cbr\u003emill-stream, carrying water to a mill two or three fields away, bent\u003cbr\u003eround one corner of it, and in the middle of the bend lay a large old\u003cbr\u003eFairy Ring of darkened grass, which was the stage.  The millstream\u003cbr\u003ebanks, overgrown with willow, hazel, and guelder-rose, made convenient\u003cbr\u003eplaces to wait in till your turn came; and a grown-up who had seen it\u003cbr\u003esaid that Shakespeare himself could not have imagined a more suitable\u003cbr\u003esetting for his play.  They were not, of course, allowed to act on\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMidsummer Night itself, but they went down after tea on Midsummer Eve,\u003cbr\u003ewhen the shadows were growing, and they took their supper--hard-boiled\u003cbr\u003eeggs, Bath Oliver biscuits, and salt in an envelope--with them.  Three\u003cbr\u003eCows had been milked and were grazing steadily with a tearing noise\u003cbr\u003ethat one could hear all down the meadow; and the noise of the Mill at\u003cbr\u003ework sounded like bare feet running on hard ground.  A cuckoo sat on a\u003cbr\u003egate-post singing his broken June tune, 'cuckoo-cuck', while a busy\u003cbr\u003ekingfisher crossed from the mill-stream, to the brook which ran on the\u003cbr\u003eother side of the meadow.  Everything else was a sort of thick, sleepy\u003cbr\u003estillness smelling of meadow-sweet and dry grass.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir play went beautifully.  Dan remembered all his parts--Puck,\u003cbr\u003eBottom, and the three Fairies--and Una never forgot a word of\u003cbr\u003eTitania--not even the difficult piece where she tells the Fairies how\u003cbr\u003eto feed Bottom with 'apricocks, green figs, and dewberries', and all\u003cbr\u003ethe lines end in 'ies'.  They were both so pleased that they acted it\u003cbr\u003ethree times over from beginning to end before they sat down in the\u003cbr\u003eunthistly centre of the Ring to eat eggs and Bath Olivers.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082892755184,"sku":"2940013474994","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013474994_p0.jpg?v=1763581371","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013474994","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}