The Wreath1815 - 156 pages |
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... charm supreme ! Whose votaries feast on raptures ever new ! O for the voice and fire of seraphim , To sing thy glories with devotion due ! Blest be the day I ' scaped the wrangling crew , From Pyrrho's maze , and Epicurus ' sty ; And ...
... charm supreme ! Whose votaries feast on raptures ever new ! O for the voice and fire of seraphim , To sing thy glories with devotion due ! Blest be the day I ' scaped the wrangling crew , From Pyrrho's maze , and Epicurus ' sty ; And ...
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... charms . They hate the sensual , and scorn the vain , The parasite their influence never warms , Nor him whose sordid soul the love of gold alarms , Though richest hues the peacock's plumes adorn , Yet horror screams from his discordant ...
... charms . They hate the sensual , and scorn the vain , The parasite their influence never warms , Nor him whose sordid soul the love of gold alarms , Though richest hues the peacock's plumes adorn , Yet horror screams from his discordant ...
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... charms which Nature to her votary yields ; The warbling woodland , the resounding shore , The pomp of groves , and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds , And all that echoes to the song of even , All that the ...
... charms which Nature to her votary yields ; The warbling woodland , the resounding shore , The pomp of groves , and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds , And all that echoes to the song of even , All that the ...
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... charms ; Zealous , yet modest ; innocent , though free ; Patient of toil ; serene amidst alarms ; Inflexible in faith ; invincible in arms 7 The shepherd - swain of whom I mention made , On Scotia's mountains fed his little flock ; The ...
... charms ; Zealous , yet modest ; innocent , though free ; Patient of toil ; serene amidst alarms ; Inflexible in faith ; invincible in arms 7 The shepherd - swain of whom I mention made , On Scotia's mountains fed his little flock ; The ...
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... charms to prize . And oft he trac'd the uplands to survey , When o'er the sky advanc'd the kindling dawn , The crimson cloud , blue main , and mountain grey , And lake , dim gleaming , on the smoky lawn ; Far to the west the long , long ...
... charms to prize . And oft he trac'd the uplands to survey , When o'er the sky advanc'd the kindling dawn , The crimson cloud , blue main , and mountain grey , And lake , dim gleaming , on the smoky lawn ; Far to the west the long , long ...
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