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Page 176
... ev'ry gale is peace , and ev'ry grove Is melody ? Solitude * . O sacred solitude ; divine retreat ! Choice of the prudent ! envy of the great ! By thy pure stream , or in thy waving shade , We court fair wisdom , that celestial maid ...
... ev'ry gale is peace , and ev'ry grove Is melody ? Solitude * . O sacred solitude ; divine retreat ! Choice of the prudent ! envy of the great ! By thy pure stream , or in thy waving shade , We court fair wisdom , that celestial maid ...
Page 181
... ev'ry friend partakes my store , And want goes smiling from my door . Will forty shillings warm the breast Of worth or industry distress'd ! This sum I cheerfully impart ; ' Tis fourscore pleasures to my heart : And you may make , by ...
... ev'ry friend partakes my store , And want goes smiling from my door . Will forty shillings warm the breast Of worth or industry distress'd ! This sum I cheerfully impart ; ' Tis fourscore pleasures to my heart : And you may make , by ...
Page 184
... ry deep , ( An object strange and new , ) 6 Before Lae rose : on the wide shore Observant as I stood , The gathering storms around me roar , And heave the boiling flood . 7 Near and more near the billows rise ; Ev'n now my steps they ...
... ry deep , ( An object strange and new , ) 6 Before Lae rose : on the wide shore Observant as I stood , The gathering storms around me roar , And heave the boiling flood . 7 Near and more near the billows rise ; Ev'n now my steps they ...
Page 185
... ev'ry trial knows , Its just restraint to give ; Attentive to behold thy woes , And faithful to relieve . 18 Then why thus heavy , O my soul ! Say , why distrustful still , Thy thoughts with vain impatience roll O'er scenes of future ...
... ev'ry trial knows , Its just restraint to give ; Attentive to behold thy woes , And faithful to relieve . 18 Then why thus heavy , O my soul ! Say , why distrustful still , Thy thoughts with vain impatience roll O'er scenes of future ...
Page 187
... ev'ning on , Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad . Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird , They to their grassy couch , these to their nests , Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale . She , all night long , her am'rous ...
... ev'ning on , Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad . Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird , They to their grassy couch , these to their nests , Were sunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale . She , all night long , her am'rous ...
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Page 91 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befal me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.