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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 ...
Page 111
... attempt . How sinks the soul ! What black despair , what horror fills his heart ! When for the dusky spot , which fancy feigned His tufted cottage rising through the snow He meets the roughness of the middle waste , Far THOMSON . 111.
... attempt . How sinks the soul ! What black despair , what horror fills his heart ! When for the dusky spot , which fancy feigned His tufted cottage rising through the snow He meets the roughness of the middle waste , Far THOMSON . 111.
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George Croly. He meets the roughness of the middle waste , Far from the track , and blessed abode of man , While round him night resistless closes fast , And every tempest howling o'er his head , Renders the savage wilderness more wild ...
George Croly. He meets the roughness of the middle waste , Far from the track , and blessed abode of man , While round him night resistless closes fast , And every tempest howling o'er his head , Renders the savage wilderness more wild ...
Page 124
... meet his lonely walk , And loves unfelt attract him . Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow , not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence , not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends , but whence his bosom can ...
... meet his lonely walk , And loves unfelt attract him . Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow , not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence , not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends , but whence his bosom can ...
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... meet the sun upon the upland lawn . " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high , His listless length at noontide would he stretch , And pore upon the brook that babbles by . 66 Hard by yon ...
... meet the sun upon the upland lawn . " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high , His listless length at noontide would he stretch , And pore upon the brook that babbles by . 66 Hard by yon ...
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