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... once Indebted and discharged ; what burden then ? O had his powerful destiny ordained Me some inferior angel , I had stood Then happy ; no unbounded hope had raised Ambition . Yet why not ? some other power As great might have aspired ...
... once Indebted and discharged ; what burden then ? O had his powerful destiny ordained Me some inferior angel , I had stood Then happy ; no unbounded hope had raised Ambition . Yet why not ? some other power As great might have aspired ...
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... once a - maying , There on beds of violets blue , And fresh blown roses washed in dew , Filled her with a daughter fair , So buxom , blithe , and debonair . Haste thee , Nymph , and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity , Quips and ...
... once a - maying , There on beds of violets blue , And fresh blown roses washed in dew , Filled her with a daughter fair , So buxom , blithe , and debonair . Haste thee , Nymph , and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity , Quips and ...
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... , And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old Experience do attain To something like prophetic strain . These pleasures , Melancholy , give , And I with thee will choose to live . LYCIDAS . Yet once more , O ye Laurels , MILTON . 717.
... , And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old Experience do attain To something like prophetic strain . These pleasures , Melancholy , give , And I with thee will choose to live . LYCIDAS . Yet once more , O ye Laurels , MILTON . 717.
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George Croly. LYCIDAS . Yet once more , O ye Laurels , and once more , Ye Myrtles brown , with Ivy never sere , I come to pluck your berries , harsh and crude , And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year ...
George Croly. LYCIDAS . Yet once more , O ye Laurels , and once more , Ye Myrtles brown , with Ivy never sere , I come to pluck your berries , harsh and crude , And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year ...
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... once , and smite no more . Return , Alpheus , the dread voice is past , That shrunk thy streams ; return , Sicilian Muse , And call the vales , and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues . Ye valleys low ...
... once , and smite no more . Return , Alpheus , the dread voice is past , That shrunk thy streams ; return , Sicilian Muse , And call the vales , and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues . Ye valleys low ...
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