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I N yonder grave a Druid lies , Where slowly winds the stealing wave ! The year's
best sweets shall duteous rise To deck its Poet's sylvan grave ! In yon deep bed
of whispering reeds His airy harp * shall now be laid , That he , whose heart in ...
I N yonder grave a Druid lies , Where slowly winds the stealing wave ! The year's
best sweets shall duteous rise To deck its Poet's sylvan grave ! In yon deep bed
of whispering reeds His airy harp * shall now be laid , That he , whose heart in ...
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Hence , in old dulky time , a deluge came : When the deep - cleft difparting orb ,
that arch'd The central waters round , impetuous rush'd , With universal burst ,
into the gulph , And o'er the high - pil'd hills of fractur'd earth Wide dash'd the
waves ...
Hence , in old dulky time , a deluge came : When the deep - cleft difparting orb ,
that arch'd The central waters round , impetuous rush'd , With universal burst ,
into the gulph , And o'er the high - pil'd hills of fractur'd earth Wide dash'd the
waves ...
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High to their fount , this day , amid the hills , And woodlands warbling round ,
trace up the brooks ; The next pursue their rocky - channel'd maze , Down to the
river , in whose ample wave Their little naiads love to sport at large . V Just in the
...
High to their fount , this day , amid the hills , And woodlands warbling round ,
trace up the brooks ; The next pursue their rocky - channel'd maze , Down to the
river , in whose ample wave Their little naiads love to sport at large . V Just in the
...
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The farther shore ; where fuccourless , and fad , She with extended arms his aid
implores ; But strives in vain : borne by th'outrageous flood To distance down , he
rides the ridgy wave , Or whelm'd beneath the boiling eddy finks . These are the ...
The farther shore ; where fuccourless , and fad , She with extended arms his aid
implores ; But strives in vain : borne by th'outrageous flood To distance down , he
rides the ridgy wave , Or whelm'd beneath the boiling eddy finks . These are the ...
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That throws refreshful round a rural smell : Or , as they rake the green - appearing
ground ; And drive the dusky wave along the mead , The tuffet hay - cock rises
thick behind , In order gáy : While heard from dale to dale ; Waking the breeze ...
That throws refreshful round a rural smell : Or , as they rake the green - appearing
ground ; And drive the dusky wave along the mead , The tuffet hay - cock rises
thick behind , In order gáy : While heard from dale to dale ; Waking the breeze ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Seasons |
| Author | James Thomson |
| Publisher | A. Strahan, 1799 |
| Original from | Library of Catalonia |
| Digitized | 6 Aug 2008 |
| Length | 238 pages |
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