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Page 154
... sighs , for hoards are wanting still : Thus to my breast alternate passions rise , Pleased with each good that Heaven to man supplies : Yet oft a sigh prevails , and sorrows fall , To see the hoard of human bliss so small ; And oft I ...
... sighs , for hoards are wanting still : Thus to my breast alternate passions rise , Pleased with each good that Heaven to man supplies : Yet oft a sigh prevails , and sorrows fall , To see the hoard of human bliss so small ; And oft I ...
Page 319
... sigh For glories lost and peace gone by ! And how felt he , the wretched Man , Reclining there , -while memory ran O'er many a year of guilt and strife , Flew o'er the dark flood of his life , Nor found one sunny resting - place , Nor ...
... sigh For glories lost and peace gone by ! And how felt he , the wretched Man , Reclining there , -while memory ran O'er many a year of guilt and strife , Flew o'er the dark flood of his life , Nor found one sunny resting - place , Nor ...
Page 328
... sigh , And dream , and think through heaven they rove , They , who can thus describe and move , The very workers of these charms , Nor seek , nor ask a heaven , above Some Maman's or Theresa's arms ! How all , in short , that make the ...
... sigh , And dream , and think through heaven they rove , They , who can thus describe and move , The very workers of these charms , Nor seek , nor ask a heaven , above Some Maman's or Theresa's arms ! How all , in short , that make the ...
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