Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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... throne rejoicing ; ye in Heaven , On Earth , join all ye creatures to extol Him firft , him laft , him midst , and without end . Fairest of stars , laft in the train of night , If better thou belong not to the dawn , Sure pledge of day ...
... throne rejoicing ; ye in Heaven , On Earth , join all ye creatures to extol Him firft , him laft , him midst , and without end . Fairest of stars , laft in the train of night , If better thou belong not to the dawn , Sure pledge of day ...
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... throne : Ye princes , rulers , all adore ; Praife him , ye kings , who makes your pow'r An image of his own . Ye fair , by nature form'd to move , O praife th ' eternal Source of love , With youth's enlivening fire : Let age take up the ...
... throne : Ye princes , rulers , all adore ; Praife him , ye kings , who makes your pow'r An image of his own . Ye fair , by nature form'd to move , O praife th ' eternal Source of love , With youth's enlivening fire : Let age take up the ...
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... Throne , With equal doom , th ' unerring Law Difpenfe , who boast their birth to draw From Jee's favour'd Son . 5 . Be Peace by Each implor'd on thee , O Salem , while with bended knee To Jacob's God we pray : How bleit , who calls ...
... Throne , With equal doom , th ' unerring Law Difpenfe , who boast their birth to draw From Jee's favour'd Son . 5 . Be Peace by Each implor'd on thee , O Salem , while with bended knee To Jacob's God we pray : How bleit , who calls ...
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... throne of GOD . -O Thou , whofe pleafing power I fing ! Thy lenient influence hither bring ; Compose the ftorm , difpel the gloom , Till Nature wears her wonted bloom , Till fields and fhades their sweets exhale , And mufic fwell each ...
... throne of GOD . -O Thou , whofe pleafing power I fing ! Thy lenient influence hither bring ; Compose the ftorm , difpel the gloom , Till Nature wears her wonted bloom , Till fields and fhades their sweets exhale , And mufic fwell each ...
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... throne Thy bleffings on our head . Oh ! may thy mercy crown us here , And come without delay ; Then our whole courfe of life will feem One glad triumphant day . Now the bleft years of joy restore , For thofe of grief and ftrife , And ...
... throne Thy bleffings on our head . Oh ! may thy mercy crown us here , And come without delay ; Then our whole courfe of life will feem One glad triumphant day . Now the bleft years of joy restore , For thofe of grief and ftrife , And ...
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