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... hand of rough Mischance , Or chilled by age , their airy dance They leave , in dust to rest . Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female ...
... hand of rough Mischance , Or chilled by age , their airy dance They leave , in dust to rest . Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female ...
Page 80
... hand can trace ; And o'er the cheek of Sorrow throw A melancholy grace ; While Hope prolongs our happier hour , Or deepest shades , that dimly lower And blacken round our weary way , Gilds with a gleam of distant day . Still , where ...
... hand can trace ; And o'er the cheek of Sorrow throw A melancholy grace ; While Hope prolongs our happier hour , Or deepest shades , that dimly lower And blacken round our weary way , Gilds with a gleam of distant day . Still , where ...
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... hand Of Jove , thy magic lulls the feathered king With ruffled plumes and flagging wing ; Quenched in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak , and lightnings of his eye . I. 3 Thee the voice , the dance , obey , Tempered to ...
... hand Of Jove , thy magic lulls the feathered king With ruffled plumes and flagging wing ; Quenched in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak , and lightnings of his eye . I. 3 Thee the voice , the dance , obey , Tempered to ...
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