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Page 47
Who wisely thought my age a screen , When death approached , to stand between : The screen removed , their hearts are trembling , They mourn for me without dissembling . My female friends , whose tender hearts , Have better learned to ...
Who wisely thought my age a screen , When death approached , to stand between : The screen removed , their hearts are trembling , They mourn for me without dissembling . My female friends , whose tender hearts , Have better learned to ...
Page 262
But now does my boding heart , Epode Unhired , unaccompanied , sing A strain not meet for the dance . Yea even the palace appears To my yoke of circular eyes ( The right , nor omit I the left ) Like a slaughterhouse , so to speak ...
But now does my boding heart , Epode Unhired , unaccompanied , sing A strain not meet for the dance . Yea even the palace appears To my yoke of circular eyes ( The right , nor omit I the left ) Like a slaughterhouse , so to speak ...
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O make the heart Time's measure Because , the more it beats , The more Life fills with pleasure With songs or sturdy feats ; Our clocks our lives are cheating They go , and ground we give ; The higher the heart's beating , The higher ...
O make the heart Time's measure Because , the more it beats , The more Life fills with pleasure With songs or sturdy feats ; Our clocks our lives are cheating They go , and ground we give ; The higher the heart's beating , The higher ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Everyman Book of Light Verse |
| Editor | Robert Robinson |
| Publisher | Dent, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2007 |
| ISBN | 0460045873, 9780460045872 |
| Length | 500 pages |
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