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... weep if that she saw a mouse Caught in a trap , if it were dead or bled ; Two small hounds had she that she fed With roasted flesh , and milk , and wasted bread , But sore she wept if one of them were dead , Or if men smote it with a ...
... weep if that she saw a mouse Caught in a trap , if it were dead or bled ; Two small hounds had she that she fed With roasted flesh , and milk , and wasted bread , But sore she wept if one of them were dead , Or if men smote it with a ...
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... Weep no more , woeful shepherds , weep no more , For Lycidas , your sorrow , is not dead , Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor ; So sinks the day - star in the ocean bed , And yet anon repairs his drooping head , And tricks his ...
... Weep no more , woeful shepherds , weep no more , For Lycidas , your sorrow , is not dead , Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor ; So sinks the day - star in the ocean bed , And yet anon repairs his drooping head , And tricks his ...
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... weeping loves thy ashes grace , Nor polished marble emulate thy face ? What though no sacred earth allow thee room , Nor hallowed dirge be muttered o'er thy tomb ? Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest , And the green turf ...
... weeping loves thy ashes grace , Nor polished marble emulate thy face ? What though no sacred earth allow thee room , Nor hallowed dirge be muttered o'er thy tomb ? Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest , And the green turf ...
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... dirge is sung ; There Honour comes , a pilgrim gray , To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair , To dwell a weeping hermit there . ODE TO EVENING . If aught of oaten stop , 106 Collins . Epitaph.
... dirge is sung ; There Honour comes , a pilgrim gray , To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair , To dwell a weeping hermit there . ODE TO EVENING . If aught of oaten stop , 106 Collins . Epitaph.
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... weep . But thou who own'st that earthly bed , Ah ! what will every dirge avail ! Or tears which love and pity shed , That mourn beneath the gliding sail ! Yet lives there one whose heedless eye Shall scorn thy 110 Collins . Ode on the ...
... weep . But thou who own'st that earthly bed , Ah ! what will every dirge avail ! Or tears which love and pity shed , That mourn beneath the gliding sail ! Yet lives there one whose heedless eye Shall scorn thy 110 Collins . Ode on the ...
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