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... birds put forth their morning song , While from the spire a merry peal was rung ; The harbinger of joy , of hope and fear , To some fond , simple , and confiding pair . While thus delighted with the varied scene , I wander'd on along ...
... birds put forth their morning song , While from the spire a merry peal was rung ; The harbinger of joy , of hope and fear , To some fond , simple , and confiding pair . While thus delighted with the varied scene , I wander'd on along ...
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... bird ! From thy mischance I trace A moral for our own unthinking race ; And view the cares our anxious life that fill , From one false step to shun a fancied ill . Fond , foolish man , to future fortunes blind , With ever restless ...
... bird ! From thy mischance I trace A moral for our own unthinking race ; And view the cares our anxious life that fill , From one false step to shun a fancied ill . Fond , foolish man , to future fortunes blind , With ever restless ...
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... bird , The sweetest songster ever heard , Was flutt'ring loose on golden wings , Around my room , in airy rings . With liberty he seem'd delighted , And chirp'd on ev'ry thing he ' lighted : " Ah ! who " thought I , " from prison free ...
... bird , The sweetest songster ever heard , Was flutt'ring loose on golden wings , Around my room , in airy rings . With liberty he seem'd delighted , And chirp'd on ev'ry thing he ' lighted : " Ah ! who " thought I , " from prison free ...
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... bird conveys . From study , from restraint set free , Youth haste's the busy world to see ; Borne forward by the glitt'ring prize , Which pleasure raises to their eyes . Mad with their freedom they pursue Life's fancied joys within ...
... bird conveys . From study , from restraint set free , Youth haste's the busy world to see ; Borne forward by the glitt'ring prize , Which pleasure raises to their eyes . Mad with their freedom they pursue Life's fancied joys within ...
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... birds there no longer were heard , or were seen ; The shrubs wore no longer their liv'ry of green . I walk'd in the fields ; they no longer delighted ; Their former soft verdure was wither'd and blighted : The pale sickly leaves of the ...
... birds there no longer were heard , or were seen ; The shrubs wore no longer their liv'ry of green . I walk'd in the fields ; they no longer delighted ; Their former soft verdure was wither'd and blighted : The pale sickly leaves of the ...
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Page 128 - Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven ? And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 127 - Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Page 118 - THUS saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have holden, To subdue nations before him ; And I will loose the loins of kings, To open before him the two leaved gates; And the gates shall not be shut...
Page 118 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 126 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 126 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Page 130 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Page 118 - Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him ; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the...
Page 127 - Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.
Page 130 - Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee ; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die ; 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.