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... wish to heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil , Be blest with health , and peace , and sweet content ! And O ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion , weak and vile ! Then , how e'er crowns and ...
... wish to heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil , Be blest with health , and peace , and sweet content ! And O ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion , weak and vile ! Then , how e'er crowns and ...
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... wish for endless night . Since , oh ! whate'er my future fate , Shall joy or woe my steps await ; Tempted by love , by storms beset , Thine image I can ne'er forget . Alas ! again , no more we meet , No more our former looks repeat ...
... wish for endless night . Since , oh ! whate'er my future fate , Shall joy or woe my steps await ; Tempted by love , by storms beset , Thine image I can ne'er forget . Alas ! again , no more we meet , No more our former looks repeat ...
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... wish that I was one of you . law was made in the same reign to limit them to two inches . The variety of dresses worn in the reign of Henry the Eighth may be concluded from the print of the naked Englishman , holding a piece of cloth ...
... wish that I was one of you . law was made in the same reign to limit them to two inches . The variety of dresses worn in the reign of Henry the Eighth may be concluded from the print of the naked Englishman , holding a piece of cloth ...
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... wish within my breast For rest - but not to feel ' tis rest- Soon shall my fate that wish fulfil ; And I shall sleep without the dream Of what I was — and would be still , Though Hope hath long withdrawn her beam . ' & ' I lov'd her ...
... wish within my breast For rest - but not to feel ' tis rest- Soon shall my fate that wish fulfil ; And I shall sleep without the dream Of what I was — and would be still , Though Hope hath long withdrawn her beam . ' & ' I lov'd her ...
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... , and by very cau- tious advances , she tempted the Streliz to exceed his studied temperance at a supper prepared with unusual care . [ To be continued : ] THE POET'S WISH . INITATED FROM THE LATIN OF WALTER 36 35 SATURDAY NIGHT .
... , and by very cau- tious advances , she tempted the Streliz to exceed his studied temperance at a supper prepared with unusual care . [ To be continued : ] THE POET'S WISH . INITATED FROM THE LATIN OF WALTER 36 35 SATURDAY NIGHT .
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Page 3 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 3 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head...
Page 4 - O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content...
Page 77 - And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling...
Page 2 - An' makes him quite forget his labour an' his toil. Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun', Some ca' the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin A cannie errand to a neebor town : Their eldest hope, their Jenny, woman grown, In youthfu...
Page 2 - I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare: — If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
Page 157 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle, of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness. Instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar, of gold and jewels.
Page 3 - With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire : Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Page 2 - An' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers: The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnoticed fleet; Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears. The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years; Anticipation forward points the view; The mother, wi' her needle an' her sheers, Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; The father mixes a' wi
Page 4 - And proffer up to Heaven the warm request, That He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside.