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... keeps the ache , It keeps the pressure of a ladder - round . I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend . And I keep hearing from the cellar bin The rumbling sound Of load on load of apples coming in . For I have had too much Of apple ...
... keeps the ache , It keeps the pressure of a ladder - round . I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend . And I keep hearing from the cellar bin The rumbling sound Of load on load of apples coming in . For I have had too much Of apple ...
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... keep your virtue , Or walk with Kings -nor lose the common touch , If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you , If all men count with you , but none too much ; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds ' worth of ...
... keep your virtue , Or walk with Kings -nor lose the common touch , If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you , If all men count with you , but none too much ; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds ' worth of ...
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... KEEPING OF THE BRIDGE ( from Horatius ) • Lars Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more . By the Nine Gods he swore it , And named a trysting day , And bade his messengers ...
... KEEPING OF THE BRIDGE ( from Horatius ) • Lars Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more . By the Nine Gods he swore it , And named a trysting day , And bade his messengers ...
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ARNOLD Matthew | 19 |
AUDEN Wystan Hugh | 30 |
BELLOC Hilaire | 36 |
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