 O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah !...  Crabbe - Page 132by Alfred Ainger - 1903 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
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...: I may not hope from eutward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. ' O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live ; Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold of higher worth Than that inanimate cold... | |
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...I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. IV. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life...live : Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allow'd To the poor loveless... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1828 - 374 pages
...I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. Iv. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life...live : Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless... | |
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...• ' : may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding -garment, our* her shroud ! And would we aught behold of higher worth. Than that inanimate... | |
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...west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. Oh Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life...live ; Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless... | |
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...: I may not hope from eutward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. ' O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live ; Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold of higher worth Than that inanimate cold... | |
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...I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains art within. " О Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding- garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate... | |
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...: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within." " O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life...live : Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless... | |
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...lines, written many years ago by the writer, though without reference to, or recollection of, the above. O lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life...live ! Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allow'd To the poor, loveless,... | |
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