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... Earth has not anything • • 97. To a Highland Girl , at Inversneyde , upon Loch Lomond . • 98. The Solitary Reaper PAGE 195 • 195 197 198 198 202 99. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood • WOTTON ( 1568-1639 ) ...
... Earth has not anything • • 97. To a Highland Girl , at Inversneyde , upon Loch Lomond . • 98. The Solitary Reaper PAGE 195 • 195 197 198 198 202 99. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood • WOTTON ( 1568-1639 ) ...
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... Low he lies who once so loved you , whom you loved so , - Pity me ? Oh to love so , be so loved , yet so mistaken ! What had I on earth to do With the slothful , with the mawkish , the un- ROBERT BROWNING . 15 Epilogue.
... Low he lies who once so loved you , whom you loved so , - Pity me ? Oh to love so , be so loved , yet so mistaken ! What had I on earth to do With the slothful , with the mawkish , the un- ROBERT BROWNING . 15 Epilogue.
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... Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three , To make a new Thermopyla ! VIII . What , silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; the voices of the dead Sound like a ...
... Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three , To make a new Thermopyla ! VIII . What , silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; the voices of the dead Sound like a ...
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... Earth for Heav'n . GRAND CHORUS . As from the pow'r of sacred lays The spheres began to move , And sung the great Creator's praise To all the Bless'd above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour , The ...
... Earth for Heav'n . GRAND CHORUS . As from the pow'r of sacred lays The spheres began to move , And sung the great Creator's praise To all the Bless'd above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour , The ...
Page 57
... head upon the lap of earth A youth , to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth , And melancholy mark'd him for her own . Large was his bounty , and his soul sincere , THOMAS GRAY . 57.
... head upon the lap of earth A youth , to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth , And melancholy mark'd him for her own . Large was his bounty , and his soul sincere , THOMAS GRAY . 57.
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