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... Fair on a weakly trembling stem , It springs from icy bed , And smiles a vegetable gem , Hanging its modest head . It nodding hangs , fair ev'n as light , Just tipp'd with vernal green ; No cloud at noon of purer white , Nor snows on ...
... Fair on a weakly trembling stem , It springs from icy bed , And smiles a vegetable gem , Hanging its modest head . It nodding hangs , fair ev'n as light , Just tipp'd with vernal green ; No cloud at noon of purer white , Nor snows on ...
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... fair leaves unfold ! Thus conscious in my opening mind , When the reviving rays I find Of my more glorious sun ; My hopes revive , my spirits rise , My faith salutes the smiling skies , And thinks her warfare done . But when the evening ...
... fair leaves unfold ! Thus conscious in my opening mind , When the reviving rays I find Of my more glorious sun ; My hopes revive , my spirits rise , My faith salutes the smiling skies , And thinks her warfare done . But when the evening ...
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... fair , but foreign strand , With its fadeless summer bloom ; And I swear , by my own dear native land , Again on the heathy hills to stand , Where waves the yellow broom . MARY HOWITT . THE DAISY . STAR of the mead ! sweet daughter ...
... fair , but foreign strand , With its fadeless summer bloom ; And I swear , by my own dear native land , Again on the heathy hills to stand , Where waves the yellow broom . MARY HOWITT . THE DAISY . STAR of the mead ! sweet daughter ...
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... 'll feed thee , that another year Thou mayst renew thy industry Among the flowers , thou busy bee . MRS . CHARLOTTE SMITH . TO BLOSSOMS . FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree Why POETICAL COMPANION . 9 The Bee's Winter Retreat.
... 'll feed thee , that another year Thou mayst renew thy industry Among the flowers , thou busy bee . MRS . CHARLOTTE SMITH . TO BLOSSOMS . FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree Why POETICAL COMPANION . 9 The Bee's Winter Retreat.
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Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.). TO BLOSSOMS . FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree Why do ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past , But you may stay here yet awhile To blush and gently smile , And go at last ! What , were ...
Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.). TO BLOSSOMS . FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree Why do ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past , But you may stay here yet awhile To blush and gently smile , And go at last ! What , were ...
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