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... glittering female meets , No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set , thy spring is gone ° We frolic while ' tis May . ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON ...
... glittering female meets , No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set , thy spring is gone ° We frolic while ' tis May . ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON ...
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... glittering shafts of war . II . 2 In climes beyond the solar road , ° Where shaggy forms o'er ice - built mountains roam , The Muse has broke the twilight gloom 56 To cheer the shivering native's dull abode . And oft , beneath the ...
... glittering shafts of war . II . 2 In climes beyond the solar road , ° Where shaggy forms o'er ice - built mountains roam , The Muse has broke the twilight gloom 56 To cheer the shivering native's dull abode . And oft , beneath the ...
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... glittering skirts unroll ? Visions of glory , spare my aching sight ! Ye unborn ages , crowd not on my soul ! No more our long - lost Arthur ° we bewail . All hail , ye genuine kings , ° Britannia's issue , hail ! 110 III . 2 " Girt ...
... glittering skirts unroll ? Visions of glory , spare my aching sight ! Ye unborn ages , crowd not on my soul ! No more our long - lost Arthur ° we bewail . All hail , ye genuine kings , ° Britannia's issue , hail ! 110 III . 2 " Girt ...
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... Glittering lances are the loom , Where the dusky warp we strain , Weaving many a soldier's doom , Orkney's woe , and Randver's bane . 5 See the griesly texture grow ! ( ' Tis of human entrails made , ) 10 And the weights , that play ...
... Glittering lances are the loom , Where the dusky warp we strain , Weaving many a soldier's doom , Orkney's woe , and Randver's bane . 5 See the griesly texture grow ! ( ' Tis of human entrails made , ) 10 And the weights , that play ...
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... glittering board is spread , Dressed for whom yon golden bed ? 40 159 PROPHETESS Mantling in the goblet see The pure beverage of the bee : O'er it hangs the shield of gold ; ' Tis the drink of Balder bold : 45 145 Balder's head to death ...
... glittering board is spread , Dressed for whom yon golden bed ? 40 159 PROPHETESS Mantling in the goblet see The pure beverage of the bee : O'er it hangs the shield of gold ; ' Tis the drink of Balder bold : 45 145 Balder's head to death ...
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