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... shade : There I am wont to sit , when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil , Daily in the common prison else enjoined me ; Where I , a prisoner chained , scarce freely draw The air imprisoned also , close and damp ...
... shade : There I am wont to sit , when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil , Daily in the common prison else enjoined me ; Where I , a prisoner chained , scarce freely draw The air imprisoned also , close and damp ...
Page 65
... shades , Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend , Quiet though sad , the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both . O Flowers , That never will in other climate grow , My early visitation and my last At even , which I ...
... shades , Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend , Quiet though sad , the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both . O Flowers , That never will in other climate grow , My early visitation and my last At even , which I ...
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... shades and low browed rocks As ragged as thy locks , In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell . But come thou goddess fair and free , In Heaven yclept Euphrosyne , And by men , heart - easing Mirth , Whom lovely Venus at a birth , With two ...
... shades and low browed rocks As ragged as thy locks , In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell . But come thou goddess fair and free , In Heaven yclept Euphrosyne , And by men , heart - easing Mirth , Whom lovely Venus at a birth , With two ...
Page 70
... shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday ; Till the live - long daylight fail ; Then to the spicy nut - brown ale , With stories told of many a feat , How fairy Mab the junkets eat , She was pinched and pulled ...
... shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday ; Till the live - long daylight fail ; Then to the spicy nut - brown ale , With stories told of many a feat , How fairy Mab the junkets eat , She was pinched and pulled ...
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... To solitary Saturn bore ; His daughter she , ( in Saturn's reign Such mixture was not held a stain , ) Oft in glimmering bowers and glades He met her , and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove , While yet there was 72 MILTON .
... To solitary Saturn bore ; His daughter she , ( in Saturn's reign Such mixture was not held a stain , ) Oft in glimmering bowers and glades He met her , and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove , While yet there was 72 MILTON .
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