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... fire , Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre . " Hark , how each giant - oak , and desert cave , Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee , oh King ! their hundred arms they wave . Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe ...
... fire , Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre . " Hark , how each giant - oak , and desert cave , Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee , oh King ! their hundred arms they wave . Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe ...
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... fires the western skies , They melt , they vanish from my eyes . 100 But oh ! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height 105 Descending slow their glittering skirts unroll ? Visions of glory , spare my aching sight ! Ye unborn ages , crowd ...
... fires the western skies , They melt , they vanish from my eyes . 100 But oh ! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height 105 Descending slow their glittering skirts unroll ? Visions of glory , spare my aching sight ! Ye unborn ages , crowd ...
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... fire to save , Better be twisted into caps for spice Than thus be patched and cobbled in one's grave . 20 So York shall taste what Clouet ° never knew , So from our works sublimer fumes shall rise ; While Nancy earns the praise to ...
... fire to save , Better be twisted into caps for spice Than thus be patched and cobbled in one's grave . 20 So York shall taste what Clouet ° never knew , So from our works sublimer fumes shall rise ; While Nancy earns the praise to ...
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... fire , Rise the rapturous choir among ; Hark ! ' tis nature strikes the lyre , And leads the general song : Yesterday the sullen year Saw the snowy whirlwind fly ; 20 Mute was the music of the air , The herd PLEASURE ARISING FROM ...
... fire , Rise the rapturous choir among ; Hark ! ' tis nature strikes the lyre , And leads the general song : Yesterday the sullen year Saw the snowy whirlwind fly ; 20 Mute was the music of the air , The herd PLEASURE ARISING FROM ...
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... indignant groan , Her native plains , and empires once her own ? Can opener skies and sons of fiercer flame O'erpower the fire that animates our frame ; 65 As lamps , that shed at eve a cheerful ray ALLIANCE OF EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT 51.
... indignant groan , Her native plains , and empires once her own ? Can opener skies and sons of fiercer flame O'erpower the fire that animates our frame ; 65 As lamps , that shed at eve a cheerful ray ALLIANCE OF EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT 51.
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