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... beauty forth . But who can paint Like Nature ? Can imagination boast , Amid its gay creation , hues like her's ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill , And lose them in each other , as appears In every bud that blows ? If fancy ...
... beauty forth . But who can paint Like Nature ? Can imagination boast , Amid its gay creation , hues like her's ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill , And lose them in each other , as appears In every bud that blows ? If fancy ...
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... beauty to the roving eye . 505 Here their delicious task the fervent bees , In fwarming millions , tend : around , athwart , Thro ' the foft air , the bufy nations fly , Cling to the bud , and , with inferted tube , 510 Suck its pure ...
... beauty to the roving eye . 505 Here their delicious task the fervent bees , In fwarming millions , tend : around , athwart , Thro ' the foft air , the bufy nations fly , Cling to the bud , and , with inferted tube , 510 Suck its pure ...
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... beauty plays Her idle freaks ; from family diffus'd To family . as flies the father - duft , The varied colours run ; and , while they break 540 On the charm'd eyc , th ' exulting florift marks , With fecret pride , the wonders of his ...
... beauty plays Her idle freaks ; from family diffus'd To family . as flies the father - duft , The varied colours run ; and , while they break 540 On the charm'd eyc , th ' exulting florift marks , With fecret pride , the wonders of his ...
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... beauty dearer , thould they look Or on the mind , or mind - illumin'd face ; Truth , goodness , honour , harmony , and love , ' The richest bounty of indulgent heav'n . Meantime a fimiling offspring rifes round , And mingles both their ...
... beauty dearer , thould they look Or on the mind , or mind - illumin'd face ; Truth , goodness , honour , harmony , and love , ' The richest bounty of indulgent heav'n . Meantime a fimiling offspring rifes round , And mingles both their ...
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... beauty all were wrapt In uneffential gloom ; and thou , Q Sun ! Soul of furrounding worlds ! in whom best seen Shines out thy Maker ! may I fing of thee ! Tis by thy fecret , strong , attractive force , 95 44 As with a chain ...
... beauty all were wrapt In uneffential gloom ; and thou , Q Sun ! Soul of furrounding worlds ! in whom best seen Shines out thy Maker ! may I fing of thee ! Tis by thy fecret , strong , attractive force , 95 44 As with a chain ...
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