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... fall , Yet strength was pillar'd in each massy aisle . Monastic dome ! condemn'd to uses vile ! Where Superstition once had made her den Now Paphian girls were known to sing and smile ; And monks might deem their time was come agen , If ...
... fall , Yet strength was pillar'd in each massy aisle . Monastic dome ! condemn'd to uses vile ! Where Superstition once had made her den Now Paphian girls were known to sing and smile ; And monks might deem their time was come agen , If ...
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... fall where other chieftains lead Thy name shall circle round the gaping throng , And shine in worthless lays , the theme of transient song ! D XLIV . Enough of Battle's minions ! let them play CANTO I. 33 PILGRIMAGE .
... fall where other chieftains lead Thy name shall circle round the gaping throng , And shine in worthless lays , the theme of transient song ! D XLIV . Enough of Battle's minions ! let them play CANTO I. 33 PILGRIMAGE .
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... fall to deck some single name . In sooth ' twere sad to thwart their noble aim Who strike , blest hirelings ! for their country's good , And die , that living might have proved her shame ; Perish'd , perchance , in some domestic feud ...
... fall to deck some single name . In sooth ' twere sad to thwart their noble aim Who strike , blest hirelings ! for their country's good , And die , that living might have proved her shame ; Perish'd , perchance , in some domestic feud ...
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... fall ? the young , the proud , the brave , To swell one bloated Chief's unwholesome reign ? No step between submission and a grave ? The rise of rapine and the fall of Spain ? And doth the Power that man adores ordain Their doom , nor ...
... fall ? the young , the proud , the brave , To swell one bloated Chief's unwholesome reign ? No step between submission and a grave ? The rise of rapine and the fall of Spain ? And doth the Power that man adores ordain Their doom , nor ...
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... fall ? What maid retrieve when man's flush'd hope is lost ? Who hang so fiercely on the flying Gaul , Foil'd by a woman's hand , before a batter'd wall ? ( 11 ) LVII . Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons , But form'd for all the ...
... fall ? What maid retrieve when man's flush'd hope is lost ? Who hang so fiercely on the flying Gaul , Foil'd by a woman's hand , before a batter'd wall ? ( 11 ) LVII . Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons , But form'd for all the ...
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