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There take an inventory of all I have , And my integrity to heaven , is all . I dare
now call my own . O Cromwell , Cromwell . Had I but served God with half the
zeal I served my king , he would not in mine age Have left me to mine enemies .
There take an inventory of all I have , And my integrity to heaven , is all . I dare
now call my own . O Cromwell , Cromwell . Had I but served God with half the
zeal I served my king , he would not in mine age Have left me to mine enemies .
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And not as feeling through all parts diffused , That she might look at will through
every pore ? Then had I not been thus exiled from light , To live a life half dead , a
living death , And buried : but , O yet more miserable ! Myself my sepulchre , a ...
And not as feeling through all parts diffused , That she might look at will through
every pore ? Then had I not been thus exiled from light , To live a life half dead , a
living death , And buried : but , O yet more miserable ! Myself my sepulchre , a ...
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Divided empire with Heaven ' s King I hold , By thee , and more than half perhaps
will reign : As man ere long , and this new world , shall know . FROM THE SAME .
. O unexpected stroke , worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee , Paradise ...
Divided empire with Heaven ' s King I hold , By thee , and more than half perhaps
will reign : As man ere long , and this new world , shall know . FROM THE SAME .
. O unexpected stroke , worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee , Paradise ...
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... The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus self may heave his head From
golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers , and hear Such strains as
would have won the ear Of Pluto to have quite set free His half - regained
Eurydice .
... The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus self may heave his head From
golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers , and hear Such strains as
would have won the ear Of Pluto to have quite set free His half - regained
Eurydice .
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Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold , Of Camball , and of
Algarsife , And who had Canace to wife , That owned the virtuous ring and glass ,
And of the wondrous horse of brass , On which the Tartar king did ride ; And if ...
Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold , Of Camball , and of
Algarsife , And who had Canace to wife , That owned the virtuous ring and glass ,
And of the wondrous horse of brass , On which the Tartar king did ride ; And if ...
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| Title | The Beauties of the British Poets, with a Few Introductory Observations |
| Author | George Croly |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson, 1857 |
| Length | 395 pages |
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