The Votive Wreath, and Other PoemsBulcock, 1826 - 158 pages |
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... Too dear - too precious long to last . How could I think they would endure , Where nought but change and death are sure ? Was I to be the only one , Whom evil should not light upon ? B Or was my eyry built so high , That every.
... Too dear - too precious long to last . How could I think they would endure , Where nought but change and death are sure ? Was I to be the only one , Whom evil should not light upon ? B Or was my eyry built so high , That every.
Page 31
... EVIL DAYS COME NOT , AND THE YEARS DRAW NIGH , WHEN THOU SHALT SAY I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THEM . " ECCLESIASTES xii . v . 1 . TO THE MOTHER'S HOPE . REMEMBER now in childhood's early day , The hand that form'd thy animated clay ; Engrave ...
... EVIL DAYS COME NOT , AND THE YEARS DRAW NIGH , WHEN THOU SHALT SAY I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THEM . " ECCLESIASTES xii . v . 1 . TO THE MOTHER'S HOPE . REMEMBER now in childhood's early day , The hand that form'd thy animated clay ; Engrave ...
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... evil , still a tempting snare- But those erratic feet were soon recall'd , For Discipline was there ( with eagle eye Glancing through every avenue to ill , ) The guard of morals and the nurse of truth . Hertford , I loved thee ! and now ...
... evil , still a tempting snare- But those erratic feet were soon recall'd , For Discipline was there ( with eagle eye Glancing through every avenue to ill , ) The guard of morals and the nurse of truth . Hertford , I loved thee ! and now ...
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... evil one profusely sows O'er all the earth , prolific , bearing fruit , Alluring still as that in Eden's grove , And still as fatal - multiplying death In every hideous form ; and ill on ill Dispersing through the world , more multiform ...
... evil one profusely sows O'er all the earth , prolific , bearing fruit , Alluring still as that in Eden's grove , And still as fatal - multiplying death In every hideous form ; and ill on ill Dispersing through the world , more multiform ...
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... evil mark The colour of my days , let them be spent In prayer , in praise , in gratitude to Thee . And whatsoever things my soul approves , Honest , true , holy , lovely , just and good ; Oh may I think on these , and these alone ...
... evil mark The colour of my days , let them be spent In prayer , in praise , in gratitude to Thee . And whatsoever things my soul approves , Honest , true , holy , lovely , just and good ; Oh may I think on these , and these alone ...
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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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