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... Mary The twentieth year is well - nigh past , Since first our sky was overcast ; Ah would that this might be the last ! My Mary ! S Thy spirits have a fainter flow , I see 127.
... Mary The twentieth year is well - nigh past , Since first our sky was overcast ; Ah would that this might be the last ! My Mary ! S Thy spirits have a fainter flow , I see 127.
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... Mary ! Thy needles , once a shining store , For my sake restless heretofore , Now rust disus'd , and shine no more , My Mary ! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still , Thy sight now seconds not thy will ...
... Mary ! Thy needles , once a shining store , For my sake restless heretofore , Now rust disus'd , and shine no more , My Mary ! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still , Thy sight now seconds not thy will ...
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... Mary ! And then I feel that still I hold A richer store ten thousandfold Than misers fancy in their gold , 35 My Mary ! 40 Such feebleness of limbs thou prov'st , That now at every step thou mov'st Upheld by two ; yet still thou lov'st ...
... Mary ! And then I feel that still I hold A richer store ten thousandfold Than misers fancy in their gold , 35 My Mary ! 40 Such feebleness of limbs thou prov'st , That now at every step thou mov'st Upheld by two ; yet still thou lov'st ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
EOGHAN RUADH O SUILLEBHAIN | 130 |
WILLIAM BLAKE 17571827 | 137 |
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