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... Wings I wave ; Bowing before my Sov'reign's Feet , " The Grave produc'd these Blossoms sweet In mild repose from Earthly strife ; The Blossoms of Eternal Life ! " WILLIAM BLAKE VRASILÍ ( 80TMATË LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS THE QUEEN THE Right b V.
... Wings I wave ; Bowing before my Sov'reign's Feet , " The Grave produc'd these Blossoms sweet In mild repose from Earthly strife ; The Blossoms of Eternal Life ! " WILLIAM BLAKE VRASILÍ ( 80TMATË LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS THE QUEEN THE Right b V.
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... how dost thou rend in sunder Whom love has knit , and sympathy made one ! A tie more stubborn far than nature's band . Friendship ! mysterious cement of the soul ! grar Sweet'ner of life ! and solder of society ! I 4 THE GRAVE.
... how dost thou rend in sunder Whom love has knit , and sympathy made one ! A tie more stubborn far than nature's band . Friendship ! mysterious cement of the soul ! grar Sweet'ner of life ! and solder of society ! I 4 THE GRAVE.
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A Poem Robert Blair. Sweet'ner of life ! and solder of society ! I owe thee much . Thou hast deserv'd from me Far , far ... Sweet murm'ring ; methought the shrill - tongu'd thrush Mended his song of love ; the sooty blackbird Mellow'd his ...
A Poem Robert Blair. Sweet'ner of life ! and solder of society ! I owe thee much . Thou hast deserv'd from me Far , far ... Sweet murm'ring ; methought the shrill - tongu'd thrush Mended his song of love ; the sooty blackbird Mellow'd his ...
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... sweet instruments, ne'er out of tune, That play their several parts. Nor head nor heart Offer'd to ache ; nor was ... sweets, Or sum them up, when straight he must be gone, Ne'er to return again ! And must he go ? r. Can nought compound ...
... sweet instruments, ne'er out of tune, That play their several parts. Nor head nor heart Offer'd to ache ; nor was ... sweets, Or sum them up, when straight he must be gone, Ne'er to return again ! And must he go ? r. Can nought compound ...
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... sweets Smil'd like yon knot of cowslips on the cliff , Not to be come at by the willing hand . Here are the prude severe , and gay coquette , The sober widow , and the young green virgin , Cropp'd like a rose before ' tis fully blown ...
... sweets Smil'd like yon knot of cowslips on the cliff , Not to be come at by the willing hand . Here are the prude severe , and gay coquette , The sober widow , and the young green virgin , Cropp'd like a rose before ' tis fully blown ...
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