The Wreath: A Collection of Poems from Celebrated English Authors |
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Page 14
... never warms , Nor him whose sordid soul the love of gold alarms . Though richest hues the peacock's plumes adorn , Yet horror screams from his discordant throat . Rise , sons of harmony , and hail the morn , While warbling larks on ...
... never warms , Nor him whose sordid soul the love of gold alarms . Though richest hues the peacock's plumes adorn , Yet horror screams from his discordant throat . Rise , sons of harmony , and hail the morn , While warbling larks on ...
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... never sway'd ; An honest heart was almost all his stock ; His drink the living water from the rock : The milky dams supplied his board , and lent Their kindly fleece to baffle winter's shock ; And he , tho ' oft with dust and sweat ...
... never sway'd ; An honest heart was almost all his stock ; His drink the living water from the rock : The milky dams supplied his board , and lent Their kindly fleece to baffle winter's shock ; And he , tho ' oft with dust and sweat ...
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... never , never turn away thine ear , " Forlorn in this bleak wilderness below , " Ah ! what were man , should Heaven refuse to hear ! " To others do ( the law is not severe ) " What to thyself thou wishest to be done . " Forgive thy foes ...
... never , never turn away thine ear , " Forlorn in this bleak wilderness below , " Ah ! what were man , should Heaven refuse to hear ! " To others do ( the law is not severe ) " What to thyself thou wishest to be done . " Forgive thy foes ...
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... never knew your lore , Save when against the winter's drenching rain , And driving snow , the cottage shut the door . Then , as instructed by tradition hoar , Her legends when the Beldam ' gan impart , Or chant the old heroic ditty o'er ...
... never knew your lore , Save when against the winter's drenching rain , And driving snow , the cottage shut the door . Then , as instructed by tradition hoar , Her legends when the Beldam ' gan impart , Or chant the old heroic ditty o'er ...
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... never know , But frown on all that pass , a monument of wo . Shall he , whose birth , maturity , and age , Scarce fill the circle of one summer - day , Shall the poor gnat with discontent and rage Exclaim , that Nature hastens to decay ...
... never know , But frown on all that pass , a monument of wo . Shall he , whose birth , maturity , and age , Scarce fill the circle of one summer - day , Shall the poor gnat with discontent and rage Exclaim , that Nature hastens to decay ...
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