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Page 2190
... Thee will I show up - yea , up will I show Thy too thick buckwheats , and thy tea too thin . Ay ! here I dare thee , ready for the fray : Thou dost not " keep a first - class house , " I say ! It dost not with the advertisements agree ...
... Thee will I show up - yea , up will I show Thy too thick buckwheats , and thy tea too thin . Ay ! here I dare thee , ready for the fray : Thou dost not " keep a first - class house , " I say ! It dost not with the advertisements agree ...
Page 2195
... thee , Sweet land of liberty , Of thee I sing ; Land where my fathers died , Land of the pilgrims ' pride , From every mountain - side Let Freedom ring . My native country , thee , Land of the noble free , - Thy name I love ; I love thy ...
... thee , Sweet land of liberty , Of thee I sing ; Land where my fathers died , Land of the pilgrims ' pride , From every mountain - side Let Freedom ring . My native country , thee , Land of the noble free , - Thy name I love ; I love thy ...
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... thee , And who have trodden brave the forlorn way . Children of thine , but grown to strong estate ; Nor scorn from thee would they be slow to pay , Nor check from thee submissly would they bear ; Yet , Mother England ! yet their hearts ...
... thee , And who have trodden brave the forlorn way . Children of thine , but grown to strong estate ; Nor scorn from thee would they be slow to pay , Nor check from thee submissly would they bear ; Yet , Mother England ! yet their hearts ...
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... Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame ; All their attempts to bend thee de wn Will but arouse thy generous flame , But work their woe , and thy renown . To thee belongs the rural reign ; Thy cities shall with commerce shine ; All thine ...
... Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame ; All their attempts to bend thee de wn Will but arouse thy generous flame , But work their woe , and thy renown . To thee belongs the rural reign ; Thy cities shall with commerce shine ; All thine ...
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... thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark for the cause of men ; And I by my affection was beguiled : What wonder if a Poet now and then , Among the many movements of his mind , Felt for thee as a lover or a child ! William Wordsworth [ 1770 ...
... thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark for the cause of men ; And I by my affection was beguiled : What wonder if a Poet now and then , Among the many movements of his mind , Felt for thee as a lover or a child ! William Wordsworth [ 1770 ...
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