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... as one individual soul , For ever happy : him who disobeys , Me disobeys ,
breaks union , and that day , Cast out from God and blessed vision , falls Into utter
darkness , deep ingulf ' d , his place Ordain ' d without redemption , without end .
... as one individual soul , For ever happy : him who disobeys , Me disobeys ,
breaks union , and that day , Cast out from God and blessed vision , falls Into utter
darkness , deep ingulf ' d , his place Ordain ' d without redemption , without end .
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To the ocean now I fly , And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts
his eye , Up in the broad fields of the sky : There I suck the liquid air All amidst the
gardens fair Of Hesperus , and his daughters three That sing about the golden ...
To the ocean now I fly , And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts
his eye , Up in the broad fields of the sky : There I suck the liquid air All amidst the
gardens fair Of Hesperus , and his daughters three That sing about the golden ...
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Joyous as morning , Thou art laughing and scorning ; Thou hast a nest for thy
love and thy rest ; And though little troubled with sloth , Drunken lark ! thou
wouldst be loth To be such a traveller as I . Happy , happy liver , With a soul as
strong as ...
Joyous as morning , Thou art laughing and scorning ; Thou hast a nest for thy
love and thy rest ; And though little troubled with sloth , Drunken lark ! thou
wouldst be loth To be such a traveller as I . Happy , happy liver , With a soul as
strong as ...
Page 82
O daughter of Babylon , wasted with misery ; yea , happy shall he be that
rewardeth thee , as thou hast served us . 9 . Blessed be he that taketh thy
children , and throweth them against the stones . THE SAME TRANSLATED .
Βαβυλώνος έν ...
O daughter of Babylon , wasted with misery ; yea , happy shall he be that
rewardeth thee , as thou hast served us . 9 . Blessed be he that taketh thy
children , and throweth them against the stones . THE SAME TRANSLATED .
Βαβυλώνος έν ...
Page 88
... the stealing hours of time , Will well become the seat of majesty , And make , no
doubt , us happy by his reign . On him I lay what you would lay on me , The right
and fortune of his happy stars , Which God defend that I should wring from him !
... the stealing hours of time , Will well become the seat of majesty , And make , no
doubt , us happy by his reign . On him I lay what you would lay on me , The right
and fortune of his happy stars , Which God defend that I should wring from him !
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| Title | Specimens of Greek and Latin verse: chiefly translations |
| Author | Charles Rann Kennedy |
| Translated by | Charles Rann Kennedy |
| Publisher | H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 18 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 154 pages |
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