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... nature gave me ! DAILY TRIALS BY A SENSITIVE MAN Oh , there are times When all this fret and tumult that we hear Do seem more stale than to the sexton's ear His own dull chimes . Ding dong ding dong ! The world is in a simmer like a sea ...
... nature gave me ! DAILY TRIALS BY A SENSITIVE MAN Oh , there are times When all this fret and tumult that we hear Do seem more stale than to the sexton's ear His own dull chimes . Ding dong ding dong ! The world is in a simmer like a sea ...
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... of soothing silence . Kind Nature , shuffling in her loose undress , Lays bare her shady bosom ; — I can feel With all around me ; - I can hail the flowers That sprig earth's mantle , and yon quiet bird , 18 EARLIER POEMS.
... of soothing silence . Kind Nature , shuffling in her loose undress , Lays bare her shady bosom ; — I can feel With all around me ; - I can hail the flowers That sprig earth's mantle , and yon quiet bird , 18 EARLIER POEMS.
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... Nature stows away her loveliness . But this unnatural posture of the legs Cramps my extended calves , and I must go Where I can coil them in their wonted fashion . THE DORCHESTER GIANT The " pudding - stone " is a remarkable ...
... Nature stows away her loveliness . But this unnatural posture of the legs Cramps my extended calves , and I must go Where I can coil them in their wonted fashion . THE DORCHESTER GIANT The " pudding - stone " is a remarkable ...
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... nature sometimes makes one up Of such sad odds and ends , It really might be quite as well Hushed up among one's friends ! THE COMET The Comet ! He is on his way , And singing as he flies ; The whizzing planets shrink before The spectre ...
... nature sometimes makes one up Of such sad odds and ends , It really might be quite as well Hushed up among one's friends ! THE COMET The Comet ! He is on his way , And singing as he flies ; The whizzing planets shrink before The spectre ...
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Page 2 - The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 1 - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town.