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... Thou blest director , so direct my verse That it may win her people , friends commerce . Whilst her sweet air , rich soil , blest seas , my pen Shall blaze and tell the natures of her men . New England , happy in her new , true style ...
... Thou blest director , so direct my verse That it may win her people , friends commerce . Whilst her sweet air , rich soil , blest seas , my pen Shall blaze and tell the natures of her men . New England , happy in her new , true style ...
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... Thou that to passe the world's foure parts dost deeme No more , than t'were to goe to bed , or drinke ; and Thos . Carlton , who signs himself " your true friend , sometimes your soldier , " gives this honora- ble testimony : I never ...
... Thou that to passe the world's foure parts dost deeme No more , than t'were to goe to bed , or drinke ; and Thos . Carlton , who signs himself " your true friend , sometimes your soldier , " gives this honora- ble testimony : I never ...
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... thou shalt eate with cheere thy hands labour : blest shalt thou bee , it well with thee shall be therefore . 3. Thy wife like fruitful vine shall be by thine house side : the children that be thine like olive plants abide about thy ...
... thou shalt eate with cheere thy hands labour : blest shalt thou bee , it well with thee shall be therefore . 3. Thy wife like fruitful vine shall be by thine house side : the children that be thine like olive plants abide about thy ...
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... thou also drunk or asleep ? or hath a spirit of slumber put out thine eyes ? Up to thy watch - tower , what descriest thou ? Ah , Lord ! what end or number is there of the vani- ties which mine eyes are weary of beholding ? But what seest ...
... thou also drunk or asleep ? or hath a spirit of slumber put out thine eyes ? Up to thy watch - tower , what descriest thou ? Ah , Lord ! what end or number is there of the vani- ties which mine eyes are weary of beholding ? But what seest ...
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... thou art set on high , Above the thankless world , and cloudy sky ; Do thou of all thy labour reap the crown , Whilst we here reap the seed which thou hast sown . to which we may add from John Norton's life , " A taste of the Divine ...
... thou art set on high , Above the thankless world , and cloudy sky ; Do thou of all thy labour reap the crown , Whilst we here reap the seed which thou hast sown . to which we may add from John Norton's life , " A taste of the Divine ...
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