The Votive Wreath, and Other PoemsBulcock, 1826 - 158 pages |
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... brother stand confest . Joseph , blest type of life and love divine , In future ages pre - ordained to shine , How do thy wrongs each pitying heart engage ! How thy mild virtues grace the sacred page ! But chief that God - like ...
... brother stand confest . Joseph , blest type of life and love divine , In future ages pre - ordained to shine , How do thy wrongs each pitying heart engage ! How thy mild virtues grace the sacred page ! But chief that God - like ...
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... Brother , whom ye sold a slave : " But GOD ordained it thus your lives to save . " Return to Canaan , bring my Father down ; " The good of all this land shall be your own . " But fall not out as homeward ye return , " Nor in your hearts ...
... Brother , whom ye sold a slave : " But GOD ordained it thus your lives to save . " Return to Canaan , bring my Father down ; " The good of all this land shall be your own . " But fall not out as homeward ye return , " Nor in your hearts ...
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... Brother , Son ? But when revenge , and malice , and ill - will , Mankind with enmity and rancour fill ; When parents govern with a tyrant sway , Or rebel children parents disobey ; When shameful variance dwells ' twixt man and wife ...
... Brother , Son ? But when revenge , and malice , and ill - will , Mankind with enmity and rancour fill ; When parents govern with a tyrant sway , Or rebel children parents disobey ; When shameful variance dwells ' twixt man and wife ...
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... span of human life More brief , more wretched still . - The deadly rage Of elemental strife is not enough , Man lifts his arm - his own unnatural arm , Against his brother man ; and earth must drink From 42 REFLECTIONS ON THE.
... span of human life More brief , more wretched still . - The deadly rage Of elemental strife is not enough , Man lifts his arm - his own unnatural arm , Against his brother man ; and earth must drink From 42 REFLECTIONS ON THE.
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Mrs. Anne Parminter. Against his brother man ; and earth must drink From war's ensanguined field the kindred blood That animates her slaughter - breathing sons . Deep in the crimson stream may History dip Her melancholy pen , and trace ...
Mrs. Anne Parminter. Against his brother man ; and earth must drink From war's ensanguined field the kindred blood That animates her slaughter - breathing sons . Deep in the crimson stream may History dip Her melancholy pen , and trace ...
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Page 82 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 31 - Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, or ever the evil days come and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
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