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... herds by kindly nature thrive , And sage experience stores the frugal hive ; I sing . Ye lights of heaven ! whose sovereign sway Leads on the year around th ' ethereal way : Bacchus and Ceres ! if beneath your reign Earth chang'd ...
... herds by kindly nature thrive , And sage experience stores the frugal hive ; I sing . Ye lights of heaven ! whose sovereign sway Leads on the year around th ' ethereal way : Bacchus and Ceres ! if beneath your reign Earth chang'd ...
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... herd restrain . Lo ! to the gathering storm , amid the deep The troubled ocean swells its billowy sweep , Loud rings the crash upon the mountain brow , Hoarse murmurs mingle from the shores below , And ceaseless rustling of each ...
... herd restrain . Lo ! to the gathering storm , amid the deep The troubled ocean swells its billowy sweep , Loud rings the crash upon the mountain brow , Hoarse murmurs mingle from the shores below , And ceaseless rustling of each ...
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... herds , and woods among . If dull at morn with many a scatter'd beam Through vapourous haze the light obscurely gleam , Or if Aurora lift her mournful head , And with pale aspect leave Tithonus ' bed , In vain the leaf shall curl ripe ...
... herds , and woods among . If dull at morn with many a scatter'd beam Through vapourous haze the light obscurely gleam , Or if Aurora lift her mournful head , And with pale aspect leave Tithonus ' bed , In vain the leaf shall curl ripe ...
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... herds , more white than snow , And stately bull , that , of gigantic size , Supreme of victims on the altar lies , Bath'd in thy sacred stream oft led the train When Rome in pomp of triumph deck'd the fane . Here Spring perpetual leads ...
... herds , more white than snow , And stately bull , that , of gigantic size , Supreme of victims on the altar lies , Bath'd in thy sacred stream oft led the train When Rome in pomp of triumph deck'd the fane . Here Spring perpetual leads ...
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... herd each live - long day devours . For wheaten harvests Nature points her bed Black , rich , and crumbling underneath the tread Such as the swains by gradual art prepare , And form and fashion by the culturing share ; Homeward at ...
... herd each live - long day devours . For wheaten harvests Nature points her bed Black , rich , and crumbling underneath the tread Such as the swains by gradual art prepare , And form and fashion by the culturing share ; Homeward at ...
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æther arms ARTHUR MURPHY Bacchus battle Bees bend beneath blast blood bloom boughs bound breathe brood brow burst Cæsar caves cells Ceres Chaonian clouds courser crown'd Cyrene dark deep domes dread Drones Dryads earth Eurus Eurydice faithful band fame feed field fierce fire flame flocks flood flower fruit galbanum gale genial GEORGICS glade glow golden grove heaven herds hive Jesuits Jove labour land leave light limbs load lonely mead native night nymphs o'er o'erflowing olive pale Paraguay plain plants plough poison'd pomp purple Queen race rage realm rear reign repose rich rill rise roll'd round rush Scorpius shade shelter'd shore showers sire soil spread spring steeds streams swain swarms sweets swell tempests thee thou thyme tide Tmolus toil vernal vines Virgil virgin waste wave wild WILLIAM SOTHEBY wind wing'd wings wood wound yield young youth