The Task And Other Poems1891 |
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... clear exemption from its own defects . A sparkling eye beneath a wrinkled front The veteran shows , and gracing a gray beard With youthful smiles , descends towards the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden ...
... clear exemption from its own defects . A sparkling eye beneath a wrinkled front The veteran shows , and gracing a gray beard With youthful smiles , descends towards the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden ...
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... clear , And none than we more guilty . But where all Stand chargeable with guilt , and to the shafts Of wrath obnoxious , God may choose His mark , May punish , if He please , the less , to warn The more malignant . If He spared not ...
... clear , And none than we more guilty . But where all Stand chargeable with guilt , and to the shafts Of wrath obnoxious , God may choose His mark , May punish , if He please , the less , to warn The more malignant . If He spared not ...
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... clear . By him , the violated Law speaks out Its thunders , and by him , in strains as sweet As angels use , the Gospel whispers peace . He stablishes the strong , restores the weak , Reclaims the wanderer , binds the broken heart , And ...
... clear . By him , the violated Law speaks out Its thunders , and by him , in strains as sweet As angels use , the Gospel whispers peace . He stablishes the strong , restores the weak , Reclaims the wanderer , binds the broken heart , And ...
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... clear , and argument exact ? That makes a minister in holy things The joy of many , and the dread of more , His name a theme for praise and for reproach ? — That , while it gives us worth in God's account , Depreciates and undoes us in ...
... clear , and argument exact ? That makes a minister in holy things The joy of many , and the dread of more , His name a theme for praise and for reproach ? — That , while it gives us worth in God's account , Depreciates and undoes us in ...
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... clear skies . He that is ever occupied in storms , Or dives not for it or brings up instead , Vainly industrions , a disgraceful prize . The morning finds the self - sequestered man Fresh for his task , intend what task he may . Whether ...
... clear skies . He that is ever occupied in storms , Or dives not for it or brings up instead , Vainly industrions , a disgraceful prize . The morning finds the self - sequestered man Fresh for his task , intend what task he may . Whether ...
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