 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access. Oh! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed, From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 pages
...unsought, the wretched to redress; Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh, had he been content to serve the crown, With virtues only proper to the gown; Or, had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppressed the noble seed: David, for him his tuneful... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...the wretched to redress, 190 Swift of despatch, and easy of access.] O, had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...the wretched to redress; 190 Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. O! had he been content to serve the crown, With virtues only proper to the gown; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppressed the noble seed; David for him his tuneful... | |
 | John Dryden - Poetry - 2002 - 612 pages
...unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch and easy of access. Oh, had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed 195 From cockle, that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful... | |
 | Université de Strasbourg. Faculté des lettres - 1922 - 338 pages
...unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatcli and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful... | |
 | John Harvey Francis - English literature - 1929 - 264 pages
...the wretched to redress, 55 Swift of despatch and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, 60 David for him his tuneful... | |
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Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful harp had strung And Heaven had wanted one immortal song. 
