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... thee Calliope attunes her lyre . Thine is the charm in winning words that lives , Thine all the grace that wit and beauty gives : These make me thine - thine ever will I be , Could'st thou but learn to hate frivolity . III . Qualis ...
... thee Calliope attunes her lyre . Thine is the charm in winning words that lives , Thine all the grace that wit and beauty gives : These make me thine - thine ever will I be , Could'st thou but learn to hate frivolity . III . Qualis ...
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... thee , and watch in vain ! " To banish sleep I spin beside the fire , " Or seek with weary hand to tune the lyre ; " And all alone I weep to think on thee , " And nights thou lov'st to spend apart from me ; " Such the last thoughts of thee ...
... thee , and watch in vain ! " To banish sleep I spin beside the fire , " Or seek with weary hand to tune the lyre ; " And all alone I weep to think on thee , " And nights thou lov'st to spend apart from me ; " Such the last thoughts of thee ...
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... thee before ; O'er every altar will her tears flow forth , Each sacred stone be witness of her wrath ; For by no surer means her rage is moved Than to be slighted where she once was loved : And this by me ! -Still may she be the same ...
... thee before ; O'er every altar will her tears flow forth , Each sacred stone be witness of her wrath ; For by no surer means her rage is moved Than to be slighted where she once was loved : And this by me ! -Still may she be the same ...
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... thee - no liberty allow'd , She knows , none better , how to tame the proud . How oft to me , an outcast , wilt thou go , To sob thy tale in broken words of woe ! How often wilt thou shudder midst thy tears ! How oft with blanching ...
... thee - no liberty allow'd , She knows , none better , how to tame the proud . How oft to me , an outcast , wilt thou go , To sob thy tale in broken words of woe ! How often wilt thou shudder midst thy tears ! How oft with blanching ...
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... maid at length he woo'd and won , Such power have prayers , so much has kindness done . But the slow God with me no art displays , Nor treads the path he trod in former days . B * With thee , my Tullus , would I dare to BOOK I. ...
... maid at length he woo'd and won , Such power have prayers , so much has kindness done . But the slow God with me no art displays , Nor treads the path he trod in former days . B * With thee , my Tullus , would I dare to BOOK I. ...
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