 | Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1902 - 476 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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...the wretched to redress, 190 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, 195 David for him his tuneful... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 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 150 From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful... | |
 | Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - English literature - 1908 - 440 pages
...the wretched to redress, 190 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... | |
 | William Draper Lewis - Judges - 1908 - 614 pages
...unsought, the wretched to redress, 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... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...the wretched to redress. Swift of despatch and easy of access. 191 Oh! had he been content to serve as irresolute aud rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...the wretched to redress, 190 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... | |
 | William Stebbing - English poetry - 1913 - 424 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 oppress'd the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 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 oppress'd the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - English literature - 1914 - 488 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 oppress'd the noble seed; 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. 
