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... Poor Africans The Morning Dream The Nightingale and Glow - worm The Pineapples and the Bee · Verses , supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk Ode to Peace 75 77 78 80 82 84 86 87 90 The Modern Patriot 91 Report of an Adjudged Case ...
... Poor Africans The Morning Dream The Nightingale and Glow - worm The Pineapples and the Bee · Verses , supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk Ode to Peace 75 77 78 80 82 84 86 87 90 The Modern Patriot 91 Report of an Adjudged Case ...
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... poor . The boast of heraldry , the pomp of power , And all that beauty , all that wealth e'er gave , Awaits alike the inevitable hour : - O The paths of glory lead but to the grave . 30 35 Nor you , ye proud , impute to these the fault ...
... poor . The boast of heraldry , the pomp of power , And all that beauty , all that wealth e'er gave , Awaits alike the inevitable hour : - O The paths of glory lead but to the grave . 30 35 Nor you , ye proud , impute to these the fault ...
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... Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no 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 ...
... Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no 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 ...
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... poor for a bribe , and too proud to importune ; He had not the method of making a fortune ; Could love , and could hate , so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit , he believed in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire ...
... poor for a bribe , and too proud to importune ; He had not the method of making a fortune ; Could love , and could hate , so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit , he believed in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire ...
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... seen ; A sudden fit of ague shook him , He stood as mute as poor Macleane . ° Yet something he was heard to mutter , " How in the park beneath an old tree , 115 120 ( Without design to hurt the butter , Or any A LONG STORY 45 1995.
... seen ; A sudden fit of ague shook him , He stood as mute as poor Macleane . ° Yet something he was heard to mutter , " How in the park beneath an old tree , 115 120 ( Without design to hurt the butter , Or any A LONG STORY 45 1995.
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Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cæsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden golden reign grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cæsar king Lady liberty live lyre Macaulay's Essay Mary Milton mind morn Muse ne'er never night nymphs o'er Odin once Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost peace Pindar pleasure Poems poet poetry praise PROPHETESS Queen scene Scott's shade Shakespeare's sing skies sleep smile song soon sorrow soul sound spirit spring stanza sweet taste tear thee thine Thomas Gray thought Twas verse voice Welsh wild William Cowper wind wonder written wrote