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... Twas life's last spark - it fluttered and expired ! The father strewed his white hairs in the wind , Called on his child - nor lingered long behind : And FLORIO lived to see the willow wave , With many an evening - whisper , o'er their ...
... Twas life's last spark - it fluttered and expired ! The father strewed his white hairs in the wind , Called on his child - nor lingered long behind : And FLORIO lived to see the willow wave , With many an evening - whisper , o'er their ...
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... Twas ever thus . Young AMMON , when he sought Alexander , when he crossed the Hellespont , was in the twenty - second year of his age ; and with what feelings must the Scholar of Aristotle have approached the ground described by Homer ...
... Twas ever thus . Young AMMON , when he sought Alexander , when he crossed the Hellespont , was in the twenty - second year of his age ; and with what feelings must the Scholar of Aristotle have approached the ground described by Homer ...
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... Twas on these knees he sate so oft and smiled . " And soon again shall music swell the breeze ; Soon , issuing forth , shall glitter through the trees Vestures of nuptial white ; and hymns be sung , And violets scattered round ; and old ...
... Twas on these knees he sate so oft and smiled . " And soon again shall music swell the breeze ; Soon , issuing forth , shall glitter through the trees Vestures of nuptial white ; and hymns be sung , And violets scattered round ; and old ...
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... twas at matin - time That first he saw and sickened in his prime ) And soon the Sibyl , in her thirst for gold , Plays with young hearts that will not be controlled . " Absence from Thee- -as self from self it seems ! " Scaled is the ...
... twas at matin - time That first he saw and sickened in his prime ) And soon the Sibyl , in her thirst for gold , Plays with young hearts that will not be controlled . " Absence from Thee- -as self from self it seems ! " Scaled is the ...
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Samuel Rogers. —Oh , ere in sight he came , ' twas his to thrill A heart that loved him though in secret still . " Am I awake ? or is it ... can it be " An idle dream ? Nightly it visits me ! " That strain , " she cries , " as from the ...
Samuel Rogers. —Oh , ere in sight he came , ' twas his to thrill A heart that loved him though in secret still . " Am I awake ? or is it ... can it be " An idle dream ? Nightly it visits me ! " That strain , " she cries , " as from the ...
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