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... meet A goodly knight , fair marching by the way , Together with his squire , arrayed meet : His glittering armour shined far away , Like glancing light of Phœbus ' brightest ray ; From top to toe no place appeared bare , That deadly ...
... meet A goodly knight , fair marching by the way , Together with his squire , arrayed meet : His glittering armour shined far away , Like glancing light of Phœbus ' brightest ray ; From top to toe no place appeared bare , That deadly ...
Page 95
... meet with hateful eyes , Nor fields with gleaming steel be covered o'er , The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ; But useless lances into scythes shall bend , And the broad falchion in a ploughshare end . Then palaces shall rise ; the ...
... meet with hateful eyes , Nor fields with gleaming steel be covered o'er , The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ; But useless lances into scythes shall bend , And the broad falchion in a ploughshare end . Then palaces shall rise ; the ...
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... meet his latter end , Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay , While resignation gently slopes the way ; And , all his prospects brightening to the last , His heaven commerces ere the world ...
... meet his latter end , Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay , While resignation gently slopes the way ; And , all his prospects brightening to the last , His heaven commerces ere the world ...
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