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... land ! Old times ! Old times ! It is not that my fortunes flee , Nor that my cheek is pale ; I mourn whene'er I think of thee , My darling native vale ! A wiser head I have , I know , Than when I loitered there ; But in my wisdom there ...
... land ! Old times ! Old times ! It is not that my fortunes flee , Nor that my cheek is pale ; I mourn whene'er I think of thee , My darling native vale ! A wiser head I have , I know , Than when I loitered there ; But in my wisdom there ...
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... land , when life's cold toils are done And my heart lies as motionless as thine , I still might hope to press that hand in mine , My unoffending my offended one ! I would not mourn the health that flies my cheek , I would not mourn my ...
... land , when life's cold toils are done And my heart lies as motionless as thine , I still might hope to press that hand in mine , My unoffending my offended one ! I would not mourn the health that flies my cheek , I would not mourn my ...
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... land ! from age to age Be thou more great , more famed , and free ; May peace be thine , or , should'st thou wage Defensive war , cheap victory . May plenty bloom in every field Which gentle breezes softly fan , And cheerful smiles ...
... land ! from age to age Be thou more great , more famed , and free ; May peace be thine , or , should'st thou wage Defensive war , cheap victory . May plenty bloom in every field Which gentle breezes softly fan , And cheerful smiles ...
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... land from him , and to throw all their javelins at him at once ; if he had the skill with his target and his stake to defend him- self , and come off unhurt , he was ad- mitted into the service , but if he had the misfortune to be ...
... land from him , and to throw all their javelins at him at once ; if he had the skill with his target and his stake to defend him- self , and come off unhurt , he was ad- mitted into the service , but if he had the misfortune to be ...
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... land that boasts a pious race , A land of heroes brave and bold ; Enriched with every female grace Are Banba's maids with locks of gold . Of men , none with her sons compare ; No maidens with her daughters fair . If Heaven , propitious ...
... land that boasts a pious race , A land of heroes brave and bold ; Enriched with every female grace Are Banba's maids with locks of gold . Of men , none with her sons compare ; No maidens with her daughters fair . If Heaven , propitious ...
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Popular passages
Page 433 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory!
Page 267 - The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 265 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain...
Page 266 - Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power. Here, as I take my solitary rounds, Amidst thy tangling walks, and...
Page 433 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 270 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose...
Page 270 - These simple blessings of the lowly train; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art; Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their firstborn sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.
Page 267 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from.
Page 264 - E'en now, perhaps, as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests and through dangerous ways, Where beasts with man divided empire claim, And the brown Indian marks with murderous aim ; There, while above the giddy tempest flies, And all around distressful yells arise, The pensive exile, bending with his woe, To stop too fearful, and too faint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathize with mine. Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss...
Page 262 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...