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Page xxix
... wave ! The year's beft fweets fhall duteous rise To deck its Poet's fylvan grave ! In yon deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp * fhall now be laid , That he , whofe heart in forrow bleeds , May love thro ' life the foothing shade ...
... wave ! The year's beft fweets fhall duteous rise To deck its Poet's fylvan grave ! In yon deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp * fhall now be laid , That he , whofe heart in forrow bleeds , May love thro ' life the foothing shade ...
Page 13
... waves , in undulation vast ; Till , from the center to the ftreaming clouds , A fhoreless ocean tumbled round the globe . The Seafons fince have , with feverer sway Opprefs'd a broken world : the Winter keen Shook forth his wafte of ...
... waves , in undulation vast ; Till , from the center to the ftreaming clouds , A fhoreless ocean tumbled round the globe . The Seafons fince have , with feverer sway Opprefs'd a broken world : the Winter keen Shook forth his wafte of ...
Page 17
... wave Their little naiads love to fport at large . \ Juft in the dubious point , where with the pool Is mix'd the trembling ftream , or where it boils Around the stone , or from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow , There ...
... wave Their little naiads love to fport at large . \ Juft in the dubious point , where with the pool Is mix'd the trembling ftream , or where it boils Around the stone , or from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow , There ...
Page 44
... wave , Or whelm❜d beneath the boiling eddy finks . These are the charming agonies of love , Whofe mifery delights . But thro ' the heart Should jealoufy its venom once diffuse , ' Tis then delightful mifery no more , But agony unmix'd ...
... wave , Or whelm❜d beneath the boiling eddy finks . These are the charming agonies of love , Whofe mifery delights . But thro ' the heart Should jealoufy its venom once diffuse , ' Tis then delightful mifery no more , But agony unmix'd ...
Page 66
... wave along the mead , The ruffet hay - cock rises thick behind , In order gay . While heard from dale to dale ; Waking the breeze , refounds the blended voice Of happy labour , love , and focial glee . Or rushing thence , in one ...
... wave along the mead , The ruffet hay - cock rises thick behind , In order gay . While heard from dale to dale ; Waking the breeze , refounds the blended voice Of happy labour , love , and focial glee . Or rushing thence , in one ...
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