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... sweet , he wish'd not to control . " O ye wild groves , O where is now your bloom ! " ( The Muse interprets thus his tender thought- ) " Your flowers , your verdure , and your balmy gloom , " Of late so grateful in the hour of drought ...
... sweet , he wish'd not to control . " O ye wild groves , O where is now your bloom ! " ( The Muse interprets thus his tender thought- ) " Your flowers , your verdure , and your balmy gloom , " Of late so grateful in the hour of drought ...
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... masters of the lay , Nature's true sons , the friends of man and truth ! Whose song , sublimely sweet , serenely gay , } Amus'd my childhood , and inform'd my youth . O let your spirit still my bosom sooth , Inspire 26 THE MINSTREL .
... masters of the lay , Nature's true sons , the friends of man and truth ! Whose song , sublimely sweet , serenely gay , } Amus'd my childhood , and inform'd my youth . O let your spirit still my bosom sooth , Inspire 26 THE MINSTREL .
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... Sweet , wild , and artless all , as Edwin's infant song . " Perish the lore that deadens young desire , " Is the soft tenor of my song no more . Edwin , tho ' lov'd of Heaven , must not aspire To bliss which mortals never knew before ...
... Sweet , wild , and artless all , as Edwin's infant song . " Perish the lore that deadens young desire , " Is the soft tenor of my song no more . Edwin , tho ' lov'd of Heaven , must not aspire To bliss which mortals never knew before ...
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... Sweet were your shades , O ye primeval groves , " Whose boughs to man his food and shelter lent , " Pure in his pleasures , happy in his loves , " His eye still smiling , and his heart content ; [ went . " Then , hand in hand Health ...
... Sweet were your shades , O ye primeval groves , " Whose boughs to man his food and shelter lent , " Pure in his pleasures , happy in his loves , " His eye still smiling , and his heart content ; [ went . " Then , hand in hand Health ...
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... sweet Fancy's ray ! and hail the dream " That weans the weary soul from guilt and wo ! " Careless what others of my choice may deem , " I long where Love and Fancy lead to go , " And meditate on Heaven ; enough of earth I know . ” " I ...
... sweet Fancy's ray ! and hail the dream " That weans the weary soul from guilt and wo ! " Careless what others of my choice may deem , " I long where Love and Fancy lead to go , " And meditate on Heaven ; enough of earth I know . ” " I ...
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