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... lust of knowing Plumbs the deep and metes the skies ; Only one great truth concerns thee , What is nearest to thine eyes . Know thyself and thine ; cast from thee Idle dream and barren guess ; This the text of thy wise preaching ...
... lust of knowing Plumbs the deep and metes the skies ; Only one great truth concerns thee , What is nearest to thine eyes . Know thyself and thine ; cast from thee Idle dream and barren guess ; This the text of thy wise preaching ...
Page 41
... lustful eye ; Acres , gardens , gladiators , Fish - ponds , towers that flaunt the sky , Purple pomp and pillowed pleasure , And a wine - cup seldom dry , All things ; only not a common- Hearted zeal for common good , With a fevered lust ...
... lustful eye ; Acres , gardens , gladiators , Fish - ponds , towers that flaunt the sky , Purple pomp and pillowed pleasure , And a wine - cup seldom dry , All things ; only not a common- Hearted zeal for common good , With a fevered lust ...
Page 69
... lust with feeding grew , To glut the greed of wolf - nursed Rome With blood of Christian and of Jew . PAUL was marked for doom . Behold him On the bristling front of lies , In the Prætor's hall of justice , Looking with untroubled eyes ...
... lust with feeding grew , To glut the greed of wolf - nursed Rome With blood of Christian and of Jew . PAUL was marked for doom . Behold him On the bristling front of lies , In the Prætor's hall of justice , Looking with untroubled eyes ...
Page 93
... Lust and rapine , came the Dane . On the sunny slope of Bury , Where the fruitful fields are spread , From its trunk the savage Ingvar Severed Edmund's holy head . Westward then the sea - kings drifted ; Thames with gentle - flowing ...
... Lust and rapine , came the Dane . On the sunny slope of Bury , Where the fruitful fields are spread , From its trunk the savage Ingvar Severed Edmund's holy head . Westward then the sea - kings drifted ; Thames with gentle - flowing ...
Page 104
... lust to trample All free manhood in the mud . When he found a stout gainsayer , He would hang him for a knave ; When he found a weakling , he Would gild the chain that bound the slave . And he grew up with keen hunger Of more land to ...
... lust to trample All free manhood in the mud . When he found a stout gainsayer , He would hang him for a knave ; When he found a weakling , he Would gild the chain that bound the slave . And he grew up with keen hunger Of more land to ...
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