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Il Vecchio Maggot

Palude, c.a. 2.920 T.E. – Palude, primi decenni della Q.E.

Il Vecchio Maggot è un hobbit della Contea molto noto tra i suoi abitanti, che compare di tanto in tanto nelle antiche cronache, in cui ne è tracciato un racconto assai interessante.…

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prima dell’alba Tom era andato

Old Maggot slept at last in chair beside the embers.

Ere dawn Tom was gone: as dreams one half remembers,

some merry, some sad, and some of hidden warning.

None heard the door unlocked; a shower of rain at morning

his footprints washed away, at Mithe he left no traces,

at Hays-end they heard no song nor sound of heavy paces.

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Ebbero canti e allegri racconti

Laughing they drove away, in Rushey never halting,

though the inn open stood and they could smell the mailing.

They turned down Maggot’s Lane, rattling and bumping,

Tom in the farmer’s cart dancing round and jumping.

Stars shone on Bamfurlong, and Maggot’s house was lighted;

fire in the kitchen burned to welcome the benighted.

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Ora un boccale mi devi

‘Well, well. Muddy-feet! From one that’s late for meeting

away back by the Mithe that’s a surly greeting!

You old farmer fat that cannot walk for wheezing,

cart-drawn like a sack, ought to be more pleasing.

Penny-wise tub-on-legs! A beggar can’t be chooser,

or else I’d bid you go, and you would be the loser.

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