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... O'er the lone traveller in the trackless desert . Go ! if this dark and miserable earth Do jealously refuse us place for meeting , There is a heaven for those who trust in Christ . MILMAN . HARMONY . EFTSOONS they heard a most melodious ...
... O'er the lone traveller in the trackless desert . Go ! if this dark and miserable earth Do jealously refuse us place for meeting , There is a heaven for those who trust in Christ . MILMAN . HARMONY . EFTSOONS they heard a most melodious ...
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... o'er the purpled main , Than , issuing forth , the rival of his beams Launch'd on the bosom of the silver Thames . Fair nymphs , and well - drest youths , around her shone ; But ev'ry eye was fix'd on her alone . On her white breast a ...
... o'er the purpled main , Than , issuing forth , the rival of his beams Launch'd on the bosom of the silver Thames . Fair nymphs , and well - drest youths , around her shone ; But ev'ry eye was fix'd on her alone . On her white breast a ...
Page 23
... O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing , And hatches plenty for th ' ensuing spring ; Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay , Like mothers who their infants overlay ; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave , Like profuse kings ...
... O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing , And hatches plenty for th ' ensuing spring ; Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay , Like mothers who their infants overlay ; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave , Like profuse kings ...
Page 24
... o'er hill encompass'd round , A most enchanting wizard did abide , Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found . It was , I ween , a lovely spot of ground : And there a season atween June and May Half prankt with spring , with summer ...
... o'er hill encompass'd round , A most enchanting wizard did abide , Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found . It was , I ween , a lovely spot of ground : And there a season atween June and May Half prankt with spring , with summer ...
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... o'er a breast so fair , Mantled a plaid with modest care , And never brooch the folds combin'd Above a heart more good and kind . Her kindness and her worth to spy , You need but gaze on Ellen's eye ; Not Katrine , in her mirror blue ...
... o'er a breast so fair , Mantled a plaid with modest care , And never brooch the folds combin'd Above a heart more good and kind . Her kindness and her worth to spy , You need but gaze on Ellen's eye ; Not Katrine , in her mirror blue ...
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