The Children’s Song

(notes by Donald Mackenzie)

Publication

Published with “The Treasure and the Law” in Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906).

Notes on the Text

[line 9] bear the yoke in youth: cf. Lamentations 3, 27.

[line 16] No maimed or worthless sacrifice: cf. Leviticus 22: 18-22 and Mal. 1: 13-14.

 

[D.M.]

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