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... thousands , • Hear the sledges with the bells , Heat me these irons hot ; and look thou stand , How are Thy servants blest , O Lord ! I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers , If thou should'st ever come to Modena , · looked far ...
... thousands , • Hear the sledges with the bells , Heat me these irons hot ; and look thou stand , How are Thy servants blest , O Lord ! I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers , If thou should'st ever come to Modena , · looked far ...
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... thousand worlds are round . If I am right , Thy grace impart , * Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong , oh , teach my heart To find that better way ! Save me alike from foolish pride , Or impious * discontent , At aught Thy wisdom ...
... thousand worlds are round . If I am right , Thy grace impart , * Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong , oh , teach my heart To find that better way ! Save me alike from foolish pride , Or impious * discontent , At aught Thy wisdom ...
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... thousands on her plains , They are smiling o'er the silvery brooks , * And round the hamlet - fanes . * Through glowing orchards * forth they peep , Each from its nook * of leaves ; * And fearless there the lowly sleep , As the bird ...
... thousands on her plains , They are smiling o'er the silvery brooks , * And round the hamlet - fanes . * Through glowing orchards * forth they peep , Each from its nook * of leaves ; * And fearless there the lowly sleep , As the bird ...
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... thousand , 36,000 men were either killed or wounded in this battle . Wonder - waiting , ex- pecting to hear a wonderful story . Rout , defeat , made them run . He came to ask , what he had found , That was so large , and smooth , and ...
... thousand , 36,000 men were either killed or wounded in this battle . Wonder - waiting , ex- pecting to hear a wonderful story . Rout , defeat , made them run . He came to ask , what he had found , That was so large , and smooth , and ...
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... thousands had sunk on the ground over- powered , The weary to sleep , and the wounded to die . 5 When reposing that night on my pallet * straw , of By the wolf - scaring faggot * that guarded the slain , At the dead of the night a sweet ...
... thousands had sunk on the ground over- powered , The weary to sleep , and the wounded to die . 5 When reposing that night on my pallet * straw , of By the wolf - scaring faggot * that guarded the slain , At the dead of the night a sweet ...
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Page 145 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts ; I am no orator, as Brutus is: But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend : and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.
Page 29 - So faithful in love and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar. He stayed not for brake and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske river where ford there was none : But ere he alighted at Netherby gate The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Page 129 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 27 - Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the Presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ?" The Vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, " The names of those who love the Lord." " And is mine one ? " said Abou. " Nay, not so,
Page 36 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, "Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen.
Page 26 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Page 88 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 133 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Page 122 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 82 - THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek, and tresses grey, Seem'd to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy.