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... Sweet innocence ! thou stranger to offence " And inward storm ! HE , who yon skies involves In frowns of darkness , ever smiles on thee " With kind regard . O'er thee the secret shaft " That wastes at midnight , or th ' undreaded hour ...
... Sweet innocence ! thou stranger to offence " And inward storm ! HE , who yon skies involves In frowns of darkness , ever smiles on thee " With kind regard . O'er thee the secret shaft " That wastes at midnight , or th ' undreaded hour ...
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... sweets To weave fresh garlands for the glowing brow Of him the favour'd youth That prompts their whisper'd sigh ... Sweet is thy reign , but short ; the red dogstar Shall scorch thy tresses , and the mower's sithe Thy greens , thy ...
... sweets To weave fresh garlands for the glowing brow Of him the favour'd youth That prompts their whisper'd sigh ... Sweet is thy reign , but short ; the red dogstar Shall scorch thy tresses , and the mower's sithe Thy greens , thy ...
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... sweet soother of my care ! Stenck with sad anguish at the stern decree , Fell , ling ring fell , a victim to despair , And left the world to wretchedness and me . Pity the sorrows of a poor old man , Whose 268 BOOK VIII . PATHETIC PIECES .
... sweet soother of my care ! Stenck with sad anguish at the stern decree , Fell , ling ring fell , a victim to despair , And left the world to wretchedness and me . Pity the sorrows of a poor old man , Whose 268 BOOK VIII . PATHETIC PIECES .
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Virtue our higheſt Intereſt | 2 |
Elegy written in a Coun | 10 |
NARRATIVE PIECES | 14 |
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