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... Thou first , best friend that Heaven assigns below To soothe and sweeten all the cares we know ; Whose glad suggestions still each vain alarm , When nature fades , and life forgets to charm ; Thee would the Muse invoke ! —to thee belong ...
... Thou first , best friend that Heaven assigns below To soothe and sweeten all the cares we know ; Whose glad suggestions still each vain alarm , When nature fades , and life forgets to charm ; Thee would the Muse invoke ! —to thee belong ...
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... thou canst , the sum of sorrows there ; Mark the fixed gaze , the wild and frenzied glare , The racks of thought , and freezings of despair ! But pause not then - beyond the western wave , Go , see the captive bartered as a slave ...
... thou canst , the sum of sorrows there ; Mark the fixed gaze , the wild and frenzied glare , The racks of thought , and freezings of despair ! But pause not then - beyond the western wave , Go , see the captive bartered as a slave ...
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... thou thro ' Eden's wild - wood vales pursued Each mountain - scene , majestically rude ; To note the sweet simplicity of life , Far from the din of Folly's idle strife ; Nor there awhile , with lifted eye , revered That modest stone ...
... thou thro ' Eden's wild - wood vales pursued Each mountain - scene , majestically rude ; To note the sweet simplicity of life , Far from the din of Folly's idle strife ; Nor there awhile , with lifted eye , revered That modest stone ...
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... thou ! with whom my heart was wont to share From Reason's dawn each pleasure and each care ; With whom , alas ! I fondly hoped to know The humble walks of happiness below ; If thy blest nature now unites above An angel's pity with a ...
... thou ! with whom my heart was wont to share From Reason's dawn each pleasure and each care ; With whom , alas ! I fondly hoped to know The humble walks of happiness below ; If thy blest nature now unites above An angel's pity with a ...
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... thou thro ' Eden's wild - wood vales pursued On the road - side between Penrith and Appleby there stands a small pillar with this inscription : " This pillar was erected in the year 1656 , by Ann , Countess Dowager of Pembroke , & c ...
... thou thro ' Eden's wild - wood vales pursued On the road - side between Penrith and Appleby there stands a small pillar with this inscription : " This pillar was erected in the year 1656 , by Ann , Countess Dowager of Pembroke , & c ...
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age to age ancient bids bless blest breathe bright called calm CANTO charm child Cicero clouds Columbus Cortes courser dark dear delight dream Euripides father fear fled flowers fond gaze glory glows grave grove hail hand hear heart heaven Hence Herodotus Herrera Hist holy hope and fear hour human voice hung Icarius inspire light live look mighty Wind mind Muse night o'er once Pausanias Petrarch pleasure rapture resigned rise round sacred sail sate says scene secret seraph shade shadow shed shine shore sigh silent sire sleep smile song soon sorrow soul spirit spring steals stood sung sweet swell tears thee thine thou thought thro trace trembling triumphs truth Twas UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vale VESPASIAN VIRGIL's tomb virtue voice Voyage wake wandering wave weep whence wild wind wings youth