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... earth with falling show'rs , Rising , or falling , still advance his praise . His praise , ye winds , that from four quarters blow , Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops , ye pines , With ev'ry plant in sign of worship wave ...
... earth with falling show'rs , Rising , or falling , still advance his praise . His praise , ye winds , that from four quarters blow , Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops , ye pines , With ev'ry plant in sign of worship wave ...
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... earth Shook like a coward . HOT . So it would have done At the same season , if your mother's cat Had kitten'd , though yourself had ne'er been born . GLEN . I say , the earth did shake when I was born . HOT . I say , the earth then was ...
... earth Shook like a coward . HOT . So it would have done At the same season , if your mother's cat Had kitten'd , though yourself had ne'er been born . GLEN . I say , the earth did shake when I was born . HOT . I say , the earth then was ...
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... earth Is with a kind of colic pinch'd - and - vex'd , By the impris'ning of unruly wind . Within her womb , which , for enlargement striving , Shakes the old beldame earth , and topples down High tow'rs and moss - grown steeples . At ...
... earth Is with a kind of colic pinch'd - and - vex'd , By the impris'ning of unruly wind . Within her womb , which , for enlargement striving , Shakes the old beldame earth , and topples down High tow'rs and moss - grown steeples . At ...
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Virtue our higheſt Intereſt | 2 |
Elegy written in a Coun | 10 |
NARRATIVE PIECES | 14 |
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