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... heard farthest I'll venture ; for my new enliven'd spirits Prompt me ; and they perhaps are not far off . SONG . Sweet Echo , sweetest nymph , that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell , By slow Meander's margent green , And in the ...
... heard farthest I'll venture ; for my new enliven'd spirits Prompt me ; and they perhaps are not far off . SONG . Sweet Echo , sweetest nymph , that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell , By slow Meander's margent green , And in the ...
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... heard My mother Circe , with the Sirens three , Amidst the flow'ry - kirtled Naiades Culling their potent herbs , and baleful drugs , Who , as they sung , would take the prison'd soul , And lap it in Elysium ; Scylla wept , And chid her ...
... heard My mother Circe , with the Sirens three , Amidst the flow'ry - kirtled Naiades Culling their potent herbs , and baleful drugs , Who , as they sung , would take the prison'd soul , And lap it in Elysium ; Scylla wept , And chid her ...
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... heard a most melodious sound , Of all that mote delight a dainty eare , Such as at once might not on living ground , Save in this paradise , be heard elsewhere : Right hard was it for wight that did it heare , To read what manner musick ...
... heard a most melodious sound , Of all that mote delight a dainty eare , Such as at once might not on living ground , Save in this paradise , be heard elsewhere : Right hard was it for wight that did it heare , To read what manner musick ...
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... heard the lowing herds along the vale , And flocks loud - bleating from the distant hills , And vacant shepherds piping in the dale ; And now and then sweet Philomel would wail , Or Stock - doves ' plain amid the forest deep , That ...
... heard the lowing herds along the vale , And flocks loud - bleating from the distant hills , And vacant shepherds piping in the dale ; And now and then sweet Philomel would wail , Or Stock - doves ' plain amid the forest deep , That ...
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... heard , and scarcely heard , to flow . A pleasing land of drowsihed it was , Of dreams that wave before the half - shut eyes ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass , For ever flushing round a summer sky ; There eke the soft ...
... heard , and scarcely heard , to flow . A pleasing land of drowsihed it was , Of dreams that wave before the half - shut eyes ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass , For ever flushing round a summer sky ; There eke the soft ...
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