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... feel her steerage way : Steady at helm ! " Swiftly along she scuds Before the wind , and cuts the foaming suds . Sometimes aloft she lifts her prow so high , As if she'd run her bowsprit through the sky ; Then from the summit ebbs and ...
... feel her steerage way : Steady at helm ! " Swiftly along she scuds Before the wind , and cuts the foaming suds . Sometimes aloft she lifts her prow so high , As if she'd run her bowsprit through the sky ; Then from the summit ebbs and ...
Page xxvii
... feel , And quickly we become Giddy as new - dropp'd calves , and reel Like Indians drunk with rum . What praises then are due that we Thus far have safely got , Amarescoggin tribe to see , And tribe of Penobscot . In 1750 GREEN ...
... feel , And quickly we become Giddy as new - dropp'd calves , and reel Like Indians drunk with rum . What praises then are due that we Thus far have safely got , Amarescoggin tribe to see , And tribe of Penobscot . In 1750 GREEN ...
Page 38
... feel and know Our humble station in this vale of wo , Twilight of life , illumed with feeble ray , The infant dawning of eternal day ; With heart expansive , through this scene improve The social soul of harmony and love ; To heavenly ...
... feel and know Our humble station in this vale of wo , Twilight of life , illumed with feeble ray , The infant dawning of eternal day ; With heart expansive , through this scene improve The social soul of harmony and love ; To heavenly ...
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... feels his independent lot ; Hears , with the crackling blaze that lights the wall , The voice of gladness and of nature call ; Beholds his children play , their mother smile , And tastes with them the fruit of summer's toil . From ...
... feels his independent lot ; Hears , with the crackling blaze that lights the wall , The voice of gladness and of nature call ; Beholds his children play , their mother smile , And tastes with them the fruit of summer's toil . From ...
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... feel , My morning incense , and my evening meal , - The sweets of Hasty Pudding . Come , dear bowl , Glide o'er my palate , and inspire my soul . The milk beside thee , smoking from the kine , Its substance mingled , married in with ...
... feel , My morning incense , and my evening meal , - The sweets of Hasty Pudding . Come , dear bowl , Glide o'er my palate , and inspire my soul . The milk beside thee , smoking from the kine , Its substance mingled , married in with ...
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