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... spring be far behind ? ' ; rather that another spring presages only another winter , and man's spring is but prelude to an abiding winter . In the shadow of death what then can man's life be worth ? How futile is so much of his ...
... spring be far behind ? ' ; rather that another spring presages only another winter , and man's spring is but prelude to an abiding winter . In the shadow of death what then can man's life be worth ? How futile is so much of his ...
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... Spring , Where Beauty lavishes her pow'rs On beds of never - fading flow'rs ; And pleasure propagates around Each charm of modulated sound ; Ah ! think not , in the dang'rous hour , The nymph fictitious as the flow'r ; But shun , rash ...
... Spring , Where Beauty lavishes her pow'rs On beds of never - fading flow'rs ; And pleasure propagates around Each charm of modulated sound ; Ah ! think not , in the dang'rous hour , The nymph fictitious as the flow'r ; But shun , rash ...
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... Springs , Thy Springs , and dying Gales , O Nymph reserv'd , while now the bright - hair'd Sun Sits in yon western ... Spring shall pour his Show'rs , as oft he wont , And bathe thy breathing Tresses , meekest Eve ! While Summer loves ...
... Springs , Thy Springs , and dying Gales , O Nymph reserv'd , while now the bright - hair'd Sun Sits in yon western ... Spring shall pour his Show'rs , as oft he wont , And bathe thy breathing Tresses , meekest Eve ! While Summer loves ...
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A Description of the Morning | 8 |
Horace Lib 2 Sat 6 | 28 |
A Satirical Elegy on the Death | 34 |
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