The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems |
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THE HARPER On the green banks of Shannon , when Sheelah was nigh , No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I ; No harp like my own could fo cheerily play , And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray . When at last I was forc'd from my Sheelah ...
THE HARPER On the green banks of Shannon , when Sheelah was nigh , No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I ; No harp like my own could fo cheerily play , And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray . When at last I was forc'd from my Sheelah ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems |
| Author | Thomas Campbell |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Mundell, 1800 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 29 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 136 pages |
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