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... charge She needs herself correction . Needs to learn That it is dang❜rous sporting with the world , With things fo facred as a nation's trust , The nurture of her youth , her dearest pledge . All are not fuch . I had a brother once ...
... charge She needs herself correction . Needs to learn That it is dang❜rous sporting with the world , With things fo facred as a nation's trust , The nurture of her youth , her dearest pledge . All are not fuch . I had a brother once ...
Page 97
William Cowper. My panting fide was charged when I withdrew To feek a tranquil death in diftant fhades . There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by th ' archers . In his fide he bore And in his hands ... charged when I withdrew ...
William Cowper. My panting fide was charged when I withdrew To feek a tranquil death in diftant fhades . There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by th ' archers . In his fide he bore And in his hands ... charged when I withdrew ...
Page 137
... lumb'ring at his back . True to his charge the close - pack'd load behind , Yet careless what he brings , his one concern Is to conduct it to the deftin'd inn , And Cold and And having dropp'd th ' expected bag - BOOK IV. ...
... lumb'ring at his back . True to his charge the close - pack'd load behind , Yet careless what he brings , his one concern Is to conduct it to the deftin'd inn , And Cold and And having dropp'd th ' expected bag - BOOK IV. ...
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