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Page 195 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
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Page 205 - So they loved, as love in twain Had the essence but in one ; Two distincts, division none ; Number there in love was slain.
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Page 215 - O faithful spouse, they said ; At •once the encroaching rmds their closing lips invade. Even yet, an ancient Tyanasan shows A spreading oak, that near a linden grows ; The neighbourhood confirm the prodigy, Grave men, not vain of tongue, or like to lie. I saw myself the garlands on their boughs, And tablets hung for gifts of granted vows ; And offering fresher up, with pious prayer, The good, said I, are God's peculiar care, And such as honour heaven, shall heavenly honour share.
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