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... boasts , Spice wings the gale round Saba's balmy coasts : The naked Chalybes their iron yield , The powerful castor scents the Pontic field , While fam'd Epirus rears th ' equestrian breed , Born B 2 GEORGICS ...... BOOK Ì . 7.
... boasts , Spice wings the gale round Saba's balmy coasts : The naked Chalybes their iron yield , The powerful castor scents the Pontic field , While fam'd Epirus rears th ' equestrian breed , Born B 2 GEORGICS ...... BOOK Ì . 7.
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... gale and rattled as it blew . Oats and the flaxen harvest burn the ground , And poppies shedding slumberous dews around . Yet shall thy lands from these at pleasure rear Abundant harvests each alternate year , If rich manure fresh life ...
... gale and rattled as it blew . Oats and the flaxen harvest burn the ground , And poppies shedding slumberous dews around . Yet shall thy lands from these at pleasure rear Abundant harvests each alternate year , If rich manure fresh life ...
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... mountain brow , Hoarse murmurs mingle from the shores below , And ceaseless rustling of each woodland vale Sighs to the horrors of the rushing gale . High toss the ships , when screaming cormorants sweep Along 20 GEORGICS ....... BOOK I.
... mountain brow , Hoarse murmurs mingle from the shores below , And ceaseless rustling of each woodland vale Sighs to the horrors of the rushing gale . High toss the ships , when screaming cormorants sweep Along 20 GEORGICS ....... BOOK I.
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... gale , The conscious seaman furls his dripping sail . Not unforeseen the showery tempests rage ; Earth , ocean , air , the gradual storm presage . The crane beneath his flight sees clouds arise , Folds his aerial wing , and downward ...
... gale , The conscious seaman furls his dripping sail . Not unforeseen the showery tempests rage ; Earth , ocean , air , the gradual storm presage . The crane beneath his flight sees clouds arise , Folds his aerial wing , and downward ...
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... gale : If spots immingle streak'd with gleams of fire , Rain and fierce wind to vex the world conspire ; That night my anchor'd bark shall sleep on shore , While loud and long the storms o'er ocean roar . But if the orb , at dawn that ...
... gale : If spots immingle streak'd with gleams of fire , Rain and fierce wind to vex the world conspire ; That night my anchor'd bark shall sleep on shore , While loud and long the storms o'er ocean roar . But if the orb , at dawn that ...
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