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... leave his loved one's side- Or if ye slight my words , in bitter pain Will each ere long recall them back again . II . Quid juvat ornato . WHY walk , my love , with locks bedeck'd with gold ? And rustle Coan robes with silken fold ? Ah ...
... leave his loved one's side- Or if ye slight my words , in bitter pain Will each ere long recall them back again . II . Quid juvat ornato . WHY walk , my love , with locks bedeck'd with gold ? And rustle Coan robes with silken fold ? Ah ...
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... leave me here ? Canst hear unmoved the murmurs of the deep , Or lull on planks of oak thy limbs to sleep ? Press with those tender feet the drifting snow , And tempt the cold Fate never bade thee know ? Long may stern winter wrap the ...
... leave me here ? Canst hear unmoved the murmurs of the deep , Or lull on planks of oak thy limbs to sleep ? Press with those tender feet the drifting snow , And tempt the cold Fate never bade thee know ? Long may stern winter wrap the ...
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... leave the dance they love and haste away . Gently they draw him down the yielding rill , A little splash , and all around is still . Afar Alcides calls , his love to save , Yet nought but Echo answers from the wave . Thus warn'd , my ...
... leave the dance they love and haste away . Gently they draw him down the yielding rill , A little splash , and all around is still . Afar Alcides calls , his love to save , Yet nought but Echo answers from the wave . Thus warn'd , my ...
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... leaves are not so fair as she , Though with fresh snow warm pink'd with scarlet dye , With rose - buds dipp'd in milk her cheeks may vie ; ' Twas not her hair o'er bosom floating free , Nor eyes , twin beacon - lights of love to me ...
... leaves are not so fair as she , Though with fresh snow warm pink'd with scarlet dye , With rose - buds dipp'd in milk her cheeks may vie ; ' Twas not her hair o'er bosom floating free , Nor eyes , twin beacon - lights of love to me ...
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Sextus Propertius. The fickle blast that shifts the shoaling seas , The leaves that tremble in the southern breeze , Less frail are they than woman's faith , and all The trivial whims that change her love to gall . Since this , then , is ...
Sextus Propertius. The fickle blast that shifts the shoaling seas , The leaves that tremble in the southern breeze , Less frail are they than woman's faith , and all The trivial whims that change her love to gall . Since this , then , is ...
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