New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection from the Most Eminent British Poets and Poetical Translators, Volume 1Richard Alfred Davenport C. and C. Whittingham, 1823 |
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... shade of tangled thickets In consecrated earth , And on the holy hearth , [ plaint : The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight In urns , and altars round , A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the ...
... shade of tangled thickets In consecrated earth , And on the holy hearth , [ plaint : The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight In urns , and altars round , A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the ...
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... shade ; and earth , beneath The ' imperial umbrage of his branches , smiles . The smiling earth , the spangled spheres , and man Their great Creator praise ! but praise how long , Unless by thy Almighty Arm upheld , Preserver infinite ...
... shade ; and earth , beneath The ' imperial umbrage of his branches , smiles . The smiling earth , the spangled spheres , and man Their great Creator praise ! but praise how long , Unless by thy Almighty Arm upheld , Preserver infinite ...
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... shade ; But shade not long it soon in drops dissolves , Sweet to the soul as manna to the taste , As pride of summer flower to sight or smell ! Behind this shadowing cloud , this mystic gloom , The Sharon rose , dyed in the blood of ...
... shade ; But shade not long it soon in drops dissolves , Sweet to the soul as manna to the taste , As pride of summer flower to sight or smell ! Behind this shadowing cloud , this mystic gloom , The Sharon rose , dyed in the blood of ...
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... 'd the human soul , — 6 Thus saith the Lord , Thee have I sent , A Prophet from the sky , Wide o'er the nations to proclaim The message from on high . • ' Before thy face the shades of death Shall DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL . 27 Hymn Logan.
... 'd the human soul , — 6 Thus saith the Lord , Thee have I sent , A Prophet from the sky , Wide o'er the nations to proclaim The message from on high . • ' Before thy face the shades of death Shall DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL . 27 Hymn Logan.
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... shades of death Shall take to sudden flight ; The people who in darkness dwell Shall hail a glorious light ; ' The gates of brass shall sunder burst , The iron fetters fall ; The promised jubilee of Heaven Appointed rise o'er all . And ...
... shades of death Shall take to sudden flight ; The people who in darkness dwell Shall hail a glorious light ; ' The gates of brass shall sunder burst , The iron fetters fall ; The promised jubilee of Heaven Appointed rise o'er all . And ...
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