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Page 17
... soul , And lap it in Elysium ; Scylla wept , And chid her barking waves into attention , And fell Charybdis murmur'd soft applause : Yet they in pleasing slumber lull'd the sense , And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself ; But such a ...
... soul , And lap it in Elysium ; Scylla wept , And chid her barking waves into attention , And fell Charybdis murmur'd soft applause : Yet they in pleasing slumber lull'd the sense , And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself ; But such a ...
Page 19
... soul With their importunate and jarring din , Javan , I think on thee , and am at peace . Our famish'd maidens gaze on me , and see That I am famish'd like themselves , as pale , With lips as parch'd and eyes as wild , yet I Sit patient ...
... soul With their importunate and jarring din , Javan , I think on thee , and am at peace . Our famish'd maidens gaze on me , and see That I am famish'd like themselves , as pale , With lips as parch'd and eyes as wild , yet I Sit patient ...
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... soul Had smiled on me a passionate consent . Go ; for I see thy parting homeward look , Go in thy beauty ! like a setting star , The last in all the thick and moonless heavens , O'er the lone traveller in the trackless desert . Go ! if ...
... soul Had smiled on me a passionate consent . Go ; for I see thy parting homeward look , Go in thy beauty ! like a setting star , The last in all the thick and moonless heavens , O'er the lone traveller in the trackless desert . Go ! if ...
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... soul and sense Awoke by infant innocence ! Though dear the forms by fancy wove , We love them with a transient love , Thoughts from the living world intrude E'en on her deepest solitude : But , lovely child ! thy magic stole At once ...
... soul and sense Awoke by infant innocence ! Though dear the forms by fancy wove , We love them with a transient love , Thoughts from the living world intrude E'en on her deepest solitude : But , lovely child ! thy magic stole At once ...
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... souls have stirr'd When thy first spoken words were heard , Words , that , inspired by Heaven , express'd The ... soul were soaring To Heaven , and Heaven's God adoring ! And who can tell what visions high May bless an infant's ...
... souls have stirr'd When thy first spoken words were heard , Words , that , inspired by Heaven , express'd The ... soul were soaring To Heaven , and Heaven's God adoring ! And who can tell what visions high May bless an infant's ...
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