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... one good deed a fleeting hour employ , Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy ; Blest were my lines , though limited their sphere , Though short their date as his who traced them here . CONTENTS . The Pleasures of Memory , Part I. Notes.
... one good deed a fleeting hour employ , Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy ; Blest were my lines , though limited their sphere , Though short their date as his who traced them here . CONTENTS . The Pleasures of Memory , Part I. Notes.
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... hour , With startling step , we scaled the lonely tower ; O'er infant innocence to hang and weep , Murdered by ruffian hands , when smiling in its sleep . Ye household deities ! whose guardian eye Marked each pure thought , ere ...
... hour , With startling step , we scaled the lonely tower ; O'er infant innocence to hang and weep , Murdered by ruffian hands , when smiling in its sleep . Ye household deities ! whose guardian eye Marked each pure thought , ere ...
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... hour away , Won by the charm of innocence at play ; He bends to meet each artless burst of joy , Forgets his age , and acts again the boy . What though the iron school of war erase Each milder virtue , and each softer grace ; What ...
... hour away , Won by the charm of innocence at play ; He bends to meet each artless burst of joy , Forgets his age , and acts again the boy . What though the iron school of war erase Each milder virtue , and each softer grace ; What ...
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... hours beguiled , Melts at the long - lost scenes that round him rise , And sinks , a martyr to repentant sighs . Ask not if courts or camps dissolve the charm : Say why VESPASIAN loved his Sabine farm ; m A Why great NAVARRE , when ...
... hours beguiled , Melts at the long - lost scenes that round him rise , And sinks , a martyr to repentant sighs . Ask not if courts or camps dissolve the charm : Say why VESPASIAN loved his Sabine farm ; m A Why great NAVARRE , when ...
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... hours , Blest with far greener shades , far fresher flowers . Ages and climes remote to thee impart What charms in genius , and refines in art ; Thee , in whose hand the keys of science dwell , The pensive portress of her holy cell ...
... hours , Blest with far greener shades , far fresher flowers . Ages and climes remote to thee impart What charms in genius , and refines in art ; Thee , in whose hand the keys of science dwell , The pensive portress of her holy cell ...
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adieu Æneid Alps bee-hives bend bids blast blest bliss blush breast breathed calm cell chains charm chase Cicero clime clouds confest coursers dark delight dreams dwell EVERT DUYCKINCK faithless fancy's feeling fled flows fond fondly gale gaze glade glows grove hail hanging wood Hark heart Hence Hist hour hues hung light live lustre magic Maximian melancholy melts mind murmurs muse native NAVARRE night NOTE o'er pause pensive PLEASURES OF MEMORY PLUT poor dog Tray rapture repose resigned rise ROBERT MERRY round rude sacred SAMUEL ROGERS scene shade shadowy sigh silent sleep smile soft sooth sorrow soul sphere spirit spring steals stream sweet swell tears tempest thee thine thou thought thoughts inspire trace triumphs truth Twas vale VESPASIAN VIRGIL's tomb virtue voice wake wave weep whisper wild wind wing youth