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... o'er her face ; Where thoughts serenely sweet express , How pure , how dear their dwelling - place . III . And on that cheek , and o'er that brow , So soft , so calm , yet eloquent , The smiles that win , the tints that glow , 26 She ...
... o'er her face ; Where thoughts serenely sweet express , How pure , how dear their dwelling - place . III . And on that cheek , and o'er that brow , So soft , so calm , yet eloquent , The smiles that win , the tints that glow , 26 She ...
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... o'er sea - born Salamis ; And ships , by thousands , lay below , And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And , when the Sun set , where were they ? V. And where are they ? and where art thou , My Country ...
... o'er sea - born Salamis ; And ships , by thousands , lay below , And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And , when the Sun set , where were they ? V. And where are they ? and where art thou , My Country ...
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... o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? - Our fathers bled . 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 ...
... o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? - Our fathers bled . 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 ...
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... O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands , How lightly then it flashed along : - Like those trim skiffs , unknown of yore , On winding lakes and rivers wide , That ask no aid of sail or oar , That fear no spite of wind or tide ! Nought ...
... O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands , How lightly then it flashed along : - Like those trim skiffs , unknown of yore , On winding lakes and rivers wide , That ask no aid of sail or oar , That fear no spite of wind or tide ! Nought ...
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... o'er the lea , The ploughman homeward plods his weary way , And leaves the world to darkness and to me . Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight , And all the air a solemn stillness holds , Save where the beetle wheels his ...
... o'er the lea , The ploughman homeward plods his weary way , And leaves the world to darkness and to me . Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight , And all the air a solemn stillness holds , Save where the beetle wheels his ...
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