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... skies . Wake , all ye mounting tribes , and fing ; Ye plumy warblers of the spring , Harmonious anthems raise To him who fhap'd your finer mould , Who tipp'd your glittering wings with gold , And tun'd your voice to praife . Let man ...
... skies . Wake , all ye mounting tribes , and fing ; Ye plumy warblers of the spring , Harmonious anthems raise To him who fhap'd your finer mould , Who tipp'd your glittering wings with gold , And tun'd your voice to praife . Let man ...
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... skies , With ftars and planets crown'd ; Who in their dance attend the Moon , The empress of the night , And pour around her filver throne Their tributary light : Lord ! what is mortal man ? that he Thy kind regard thould have ? What is ...
... skies , With ftars and planets crown'd ; Who in their dance attend the Moon , The empress of the night , And pour around her filver throne Their tributary light : Lord ! what is mortal man ? that he Thy kind regard thould have ? What is ...
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... skies . Our minds ( hall be ferenc and calm , Like Siloah's peaceful flood ; Whole foft and filver streams refresh The City of our God . Within the proud delighted wayes The wanton turrets play ' ; ' The ftreams lead down their humid ...
... skies . Our minds ( hall be ferenc and calm , Like Siloah's peaceful flood ; Whole foft and filver streams refresh The City of our God . Within the proud delighted wayes The wanton turrets play ' ; ' The ftreams lead down their humid ...
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... skies , Waves peep o'er waves , and feas o'er feas arife . Around in heaps the liftening furges ftand , Mute and obfervant of the high command . Congeal'd with fear attends the watery train , Rous'd from the fecret chambers of the main ...
... skies , Waves peep o'er waves , and feas o'er feas arife . Around in heaps the liftening furges ftand , Mute and obfervant of the high command . Congeal'd with fear attends the watery train , Rous'd from the fecret chambers of the main ...
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... skies . Through ages , Lord , shall stretch thy bound- lets power , The throne fhall frand when timeshall be no more : For Pharaoh's fteeds , and cars , and warlike train , Leap'd in , and boldly rang'd the fandy plain : While in the ...
... skies . Through ages , Lord , shall stretch thy bound- lets power , The throne fhall frand when timeshall be no more : For Pharaoh's fteeds , and cars , and warlike train , Leap'd in , and boldly rang'd the fandy plain : While in the ...
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