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1860.
The upland flocks grew starved and thinned: / Their shepherds scarce could feed the lambs / Whose milkless mothers butted them, / Or who were orphaned of their dams. / The lambs athirst for mother's milk / Filled all the place with piteous sounds: / Their mothers' bones made white for miles / The pastureless wet pasture grounds.