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... walls is brought ; Thy turrets fall , thy knights , that whilom fought In arms amid the field , are slain in bed , Thy gods defiled and all thy honor dead . The flames upspring and cruelly they creep From wall to roof till all to ...
... walls is brought ; Thy turrets fall , thy knights , that whilom fought In arms amid the field , are slain in bed , Thy gods defiled and all thy honor dead . The flames upspring and cruelly they creep From wall to roof till all to ...
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... walls ; Owls would have hooted in St. Peter's choir , And foxes stunk and littered in St. Paul's . MARK AKENSIDE ( 1721-1770 ) For a grotto To me , whom in their lays the shepherds call Actaea , daughter of the neighbouring stream ...
... walls ; Owls would have hooted in St. Peter's choir , And foxes stunk and littered in St. Paul's . MARK AKENSIDE ( 1721-1770 ) For a grotto To me , whom in their lays the shepherds call Actaea , daughter of the neighbouring stream ...
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... walls , And like a thunderbolt he falls . To E.L. , on his travels in Greece Illyrian woodlands , echoing falls Of water , sheets of summer glass , The long divine Peneian pass , The vast Akrokeraunian walls , Tomohrit , Athos , all ...
... walls , And like a thunderbolt he falls . To E.L. , on his travels in Greece Illyrian woodlands , echoing falls Of water , sheets of summer glass , The long divine Peneian pass , The vast Akrokeraunian walls , Tomohrit , Athos , all ...
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