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Song

By Anne Bronte

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We know where deepest lies the snow,     And where the frost-winds keenest blow,     O'er every mountain's brow,     We long have known and learnt to bear     The wandering outlaw's toil and care,     But where we late were hunted, there     Our foes are hunted now.     We have their princely homes, and they     To our wild haunts are chased away,     Dark woods, and desert caves.     And we can range from hill to hill,     And chase our vanquished victors still;     Small respite will they find until     They slumber in their graves.     But I would rather be the hare,     That crouching in its sheltered lair     Must start at every sound;     That forced from cornfields waving wide     Is driven to seek the bare hillside,     Or in the tangled copse to hide,     Than be the hunter's hound.

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Anne Brontë (1820–1849) was the youngest of the three Brontë sisters and the author of "Agnes Grey" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," one of the first sustained feminist novels in English. Her poetry explores faith, nature, and the condition of women.

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