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  • The sound that precipitates this exclamation is not that of the birds singing "a joyous song" (19) nor the "tabor's sound" (20) of which the poet also takes note, but rather the cataracts, which "blow their trumpets from the steep"

    Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800 2005

  • For this morning, as he passed along the outside of the railing wherein his two sheep were grazing, suddenly they came bounding towards him with every manifestation of delight, literally recalling the lambkins which Wordsworth saw bound 'as to the tabor's sound.'

    Prose Fancies Richard Le Gallienne 1906

  • But in one semicircle he especially noticed a group of men, women, and children, dancing to the tabor's sound in naked freedom.

    Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900

  • To the Ihrill pipe, and deep remurmuring cords Of th 'ancient harp, or tabor's hollow found.

    The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

  • O King! "and dancing to the tabor's sound, ask for alms.

    The Post Office Rabindranath Tagore 1901

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