73. _Far from the madding crowd's_, etc. Rogers quotes Drummond:

"Far from the madding worldling's hoarse discords."

Mitford points out "the ambiguity of this couplet, which indeed gives

a sense exactly contrary to that intended; to avoid which one must

break the grammatical construction." The poet's meaning is, however,

clear enough.

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