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... Standing in whispering knots . Within an hour The empty house was left to whistling winds In which the curlew sailed with wavering cry , And flying sunny gleams - a dark red mound Six paces on the moor . Nature he loved , Death was the ...
... Standing in whispering knots . Within an hour The empty house was left to whistling winds In which the curlew sailed with wavering cry , And flying sunny gleams - a dark red mound Six paces on the moor . Nature he loved , Death was the ...
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... Stands far back , gazing on the glowing West , Death ever looks on joy . " Ere long , " I thought , " Great Death will hallow all these flippant lips , And make each poor face awful . Truest tears Will not seem wasted when they fall on ...
... Stands far back , gazing on the glowing West , Death ever looks on joy . " Ere long , " I thought , " Great Death will hallow all these flippant lips , And make each poor face awful . Truest tears Will not seem wasted when they fall on ...
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... Standing before us - drunk ; a sinful song Staining his radiant lips . I often sat At those wild drinking bouts , which seemed divine In a great flash of wit - and rose next morn , Throat like the parched Sahara , and each ear Loud as a ...
... Standing before us - drunk ; a sinful song Staining his radiant lips . I often sat At those wild drinking bouts , which seemed divine In a great flash of wit - and rose next morn , Throat like the parched Sahara , and each ear Loud as a ...
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... stand up in the very front And hide her from us ; we but guess the sight From their adoring murmurs . We live on them , Feed on their thoughts ; each of us strives to speak The finest words about them . Poor fungi of a day On trunks of ...
... stand up in the very front And hide her from us ; we but guess the sight From their adoring murmurs . We live on them , Feed on their thoughts ; each of us strives to speak The finest words about them . Poor fungi of a day On trunks of ...
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... stand at gaze cheated of pain and time ; Then lets , before the smiling hues are dry , His careless sleeve slur all as off he goes . Nature , who makes the perfect rose and bird , Has never made the full and perfect man . In every ...
... stand at gaze cheated of pain and time ; Then lets , before the smiling hues are dry , His careless sleeve slur all as off he goes . Nature , who makes the perfect rose and bird , Has never made the full and perfect man . In every ...
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