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... play , And games and carols closed the busy day . Her wheel at rest , the matron thrills no more With treasured tales , and legendary lore . All , all are fled ; nor mirth nor music flows To chase the dreams of innocent repose . All ...
... play , And games and carols closed the busy day . Her wheel at rest , the matron thrills no more With treasured tales , and legendary lore . All , all are fled ; nor mirth nor music flows To chase the dreams of innocent repose . All ...
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... play ; Thy tempered gleams of happiness resigned Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind . The School's lone porch , with reverend mosses gray , Just tells the pensive pilgrim where it lay . Mute is the bell that rung at peep of dawn ...
... play ; Thy tempered gleams of happiness resigned Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind . The School's lone porch , with reverend mosses gray , Just tells the pensive pilgrim where it lay . Mute is the bell that rung at peep of dawn ...
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... played ; And , calmly pointing where our fathers lay , Roused us to rival each , the hero of his day . Hush , ye fond flutterings , hush ! while here alone I search the records of each mouldering stone . Guides of my life ! Instructors ...
... played ; And , calmly pointing where our fathers lay , Roused us to rival each , the hero of his day . Hush , ye fond flutterings , hush ! while here alone I search the records of each mouldering stone . Guides of my life ! Instructors ...
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... play ; Man's little universe at once o'ercast , At once illumined when the cloud is past . Survey the globe , each ruder realm explore ; From Reason's faintest ray to NEWTON soar . What different spheres to human bliss assigned ! What ...
... play ; Man's little universe at once o'ercast , At once illumined when the cloud is past . Survey the globe , each ruder realm explore ; From Reason's faintest ray to NEWTON soar . What different spheres to human bliss assigned ! What ...
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... hoary grandsire smiles the hour away , Won by the raptures of a game at play ; He bends to meet each artless burst of joy , Forgets his age , and acts again the boy . What tho ' the iron school of War erase Each 34 ROGERS ' POEMS .
... hoary grandsire smiles the hour away , Won by the raptures of a game at play ; He bends to meet each artless burst of joy , Forgets his age , and acts again the boy . What tho ' the iron school of War erase Each 34 ROGERS ' POEMS .
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