Crossword-Solution: KNAPS 5 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The timid hare seems half its fears to lose, Crouching and sleeping neath its grassy lair, And scarcely startles, though the shepherd goes Close by its home, and dogs are barking there; The wild colt only turns around to stare At passer by, then knaps his hide again; And moody crows beside the road forbear To fly, though pelted by the passing swain; Thus day seems turned to night, and tries to wake in vain.

The whylst the other hath no enemie, Without it be the wolfe and cruell fates, (Which no man spare): when as his disagree, He with his sheephooke knaps them on the pates, Schooling his tender lambs from wanton gates.

Thy tower still do overlook The woody knaps an' windèn brook, An' leäne's wi' here an' there a hatch, An' house wi' elem-sheäded thatch, An' vields where chaps do vur outdo The Zunday sky, wi' cwoats o' blue; An' maïdens' frocks do vur surpass The whitest deäsies in the grass.

When we in mornèn had a-drow'd The grass or russlèn haÿ abrode, The lit'some maïdens an' the chaps, Wi' bits o' nunchèns in their laps, Did all zit down upon the knaps Up there, in under hedge, below The highest elem o' the row, Where we did keep our flagon.

Guy Faux's night, dost know, we chaps, A-putten on our woldest traps, Went up the highest o' the knaps, An' meäde up such a vier! An' thou an' Tom wer all we miss'd, Vor if a sarpent had a-hiss'd Among the rest in thy sprack vist, Our fun 'd a-been the higher.