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... Live and laugh , as boyhood can ! Though the flinty slopes be hard , Stubble - speared the new - mown sward , Every morn shall lead thee through Fresh baptisms of the dew ; Every evening from thy feet Shall the cool wind kiss the heat ...
... Live and laugh , as boyhood can ! Though the flinty slopes be hard , Stubble - speared the new - mown sward , Every morn shall lead thee through Fresh baptisms of the dew ; Every evening from thy feet Shall the cool wind kiss the heat ...
Page 101
... live . She told me that shame would never betide With Truth for my creed , and God for my guide ; She taught me to lisp my earliest prayer , As I knelt beside that old arm - chair . I sat , and watched her many a day , When her eye grew ...
... live . She told me that shame would never betide With Truth for my creed , and God for my guide ; She taught me to lisp my earliest prayer , As I knelt beside that old arm - chair . I sat , and watched her many a day , When her eye grew ...
Page 103
... And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height , Her virgin bosom swell ; Such thoughts to Lucy I will give While she and I together live Here in this happy dell . " Thus Nature spake . The work was done , — YOUTH .
... And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height , Her virgin bosom swell ; Such thoughts to Lucy I will give While she and I together live Here in this happy dell . " Thus Nature spake . The work was done , — YOUTH .
Page 119
... live ' Twixt man and woman , unless each has some- thing more to give : We would be friends , and friends as true as e'er were man and man ; I'd be a second David , and she Miss Jonathan . We scorned all sentimental trash , - vows ...
... live ' Twixt man and woman , unless each has some- thing more to give : We would be friends , and friends as true as e'er were man and man ; I'd be a second David , and she Miss Jonathan . We scorned all sentimental trash , - vows ...
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... live and love in God's peculiar light . MICHAEL ANGELO ( Italian ) . Translation of J. E. TAYLOR . WERE I AS BASE AS IS THE LOWLY PLAIN . WERE I as base as is the lowly plain , And you , my Love , as high as heaven above , work ...
... live and love in God's peculiar light . MICHAEL ANGELO ( Italian ) . Translation of J. E. TAYLOR . WERE I AS BASE AS IS THE LOWLY PLAIN . WERE I as base as is the lowly plain , And you , my Love , as high as heaven above , work ...
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