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This is also vanity and vexation of spirit . 5 The fool foldeth his hands together , and eateth his own flesh . 6 Better is an handful with quietness , than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit .
This is also vanity and vexation of spirit . 5 The fool foldeth his hands together , and eateth his own flesh . 6 Better is an handful with quietness , than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit .
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If this Be but a vain belief , yet , oh ! how oftIn darkness and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight ; when the fretful stir Unprofitable , and the fever of the world , Have hung upon the beatings of my heartHow oft , in spirit ...
If this Be but a vain belief , yet , oh ! how oftIn darkness and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight ; when the fretful stir Unprofitable , and the fever of the world , Have hung upon the beatings of my heartHow oft , in spirit ...
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Now shall the land of the spirits see , Now shall it ken what a woman may be ! ... beings round were rife , Who erst had travellid mortal life ; And aye they smiled and ' gan to speer , " What spirit has brought this mortal here ?
Now shall the land of the spirits see , Now shall it ken what a woman may be ! ... beings round were rife , Who erst had travellid mortal life ; And aye they smiled and ' gan to speer , " What spirit has brought this mortal here ?
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| Title | Copeland's Treasury for Booklovers: A Panorama of English and American Poetry and Prose from the Earliest Times to the Present, Volume 1 Copeland's Treasury for Booklovers: A Panorama of English and American Poetry and Prose from the Earliest Times to the Present, Charles Townsend Copeland |
| Editor | Charles Townsend Copeland |
| Publisher | Scribner's, 1933 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2018 |
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