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... her ivory 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.
... her ivory 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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... wing , Skim round the beach in many a sportive ring , And herns voracious quit their finny prey , Dart through the clouds , and wing their viewless way . Oft shalt thou see , ere brooding storms arise , Star after star glide headlong ...
... wing , Skim round the beach in many a sportive ring , And herns voracious quit their finny prey , Dart through the clouds , and wing their viewless way . Oft shalt thou see , ere brooding storms arise , Star after star glide headlong ...
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... wings in vain , And prelude , as they sport , th ' impending rain : But o'er dry sands the raven stalks alone ... wing swift Scylla cuts the skies , Behind , on rustling plume , fierce Nisus flies : And where swift Nisus towers , her ...
... wings in vain , And prelude , as they sport , th ' impending rain : But o'er dry sands the raven stalks alone ... wing swift Scylla cuts the skies , Behind , on rustling plume , fierce Nisus flies : And where swift Nisus towers , her ...
Page 38
... wing'd with snow . The cultivated globe's far tenants trace , The Arabs here , there Scythia's painted race ; Behold how Nature parts the varied earth , And bounds the regions by her sylvan birth : Lo ! India's realm alone dark ebon ...
... wing'd with snow . The cultivated globe's far tenants trace , The Arabs here , there Scythia's painted race ; Behold how Nature parts the varied earth , And bounds the regions by her sylvan birth : Lo ! India's realm alone dark ebon ...
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... wing the waste of air , Gay gleams the land new - opening to the share . But where th ' unequal champaign swells around , And hungry gravel starves the barren ground , There rosemary and casia scarce distil Sweets for the bee that ...
... wing the waste of air , Gay gleams the land new - opening to the share . But where th ' unequal champaign swells around , And hungry gravel starves the barren ground , There rosemary and casia scarce distil Sweets for the bee that ...
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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