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Have we not seen , round Britain's peopled shore , Her useful sons exchanged for useless ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste , Like flaring tapers brightening as they waste ? Seen Opulence , her grandeur to maintain ...
Have we not seen , round Britain's peopled shore , Her useful sons exchanged for useless ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste , Like flaring tapers brightening as they waste ? Seen Opulence , her grandeur to maintain ...
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Could so much beauty condescend To be a dull domestic friend ? Could any curtain - lectures bring To decency so fine a thing ! In short , by night , ' twas fits or fretting ; By day , ' twas gadding or coquetting . Fond to be seen , she ...
Could so much beauty condescend To be a dull domestic friend ? Could any curtain - lectures bring To decency so fine a thing ! In short , by night , ' twas fits or fretting ; By day , ' twas gadding or coquetting . Fond to be seen , she ...
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I've seen the morning with gold the hills adorning , And loud tempest storming before middle day ; I've seen Tweed's silver streams , glittering in the sunny beams , Grow drumlie and dark as they roll'd on their way .
I've seen the morning with gold the hills adorning , And loud tempest storming before middle day ; I've seen Tweed's silver streams , glittering in the sunny beams , Grow drumlie and dark as they roll'd on their way .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Mirror Library, Issues 1-31 |
| Editors | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis |
| Published | 1843 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Mar 2007 |
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