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... woods adorn , The white - clad flow'rets deck the prickly thorn . To sing their beauty chaste we vainly seek , 25 So in their glory leave themselves to speak . Arrived the hour of love - bred Valentine , The IO THE SEASONS .
... woods adorn , The white - clad flow'rets deck the prickly thorn . To sing their beauty chaste we vainly seek , 25 So in their glory leave themselves to speak . Arrived the hour of love - bred Valentine , The IO THE SEASONS .
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Oliver Raymond. Arrived the hour of love - bred Valentine , The tender season claims poetic line ; The swain no longer hides his ardent love : For lengthened days and hours he mainly strove 30 His love to quell , his bursting heart to ...
Oliver Raymond. Arrived the hour of love - bred Valentine , The tender season claims poetic line ; The swain no longer hides his ardent love : For lengthened days and hours he mainly strove 30 His love to quell , his bursting heart to ...
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... hour our thoughts employ To dwell on scenes above ; where saints enjoy The presence glorious of the mighty Lord , 55 Now dressed in shining garb , with one accord His praise proclaiming , brilliantly arrayed In robes of righteousness ...
... hour our thoughts employ To dwell on scenes above ; where saints enjoy The presence glorious of the mighty Lord , 55 Now dressed in shining garb , with one accord His praise proclaiming , brilliantly arrayed In robes of righteousness ...
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... hour to gain 115 The enjoyment equal of them both ; they twain Combined the patient angler now enjoys— He fishes , contemplates , away from noise ; Thus contemplation , action , fill the hour Of happy pastime , and their bliss secure ...
... hour to gain 115 The enjoyment equal of them both ; they twain Combined the patient angler now enjoys— He fishes , contemplates , away from noise ; Thus contemplation , action , fill the hour Of happy pastime , and their bliss secure ...
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... free from worldly strife , His cares forgetting , lost in peaceful life . 165 Sweet contemplation fills the transient hour , O'er him the toils of life have lost their power ; Silence around him reigns , his thoughts are free To SPRING .
... free from worldly strife , His cares forgetting , lost in peaceful life . 165 Sweet contemplation fills the transient hour , O'er him the toils of life have lost their power ; Silence around him reigns , his thoughts are free To SPRING .
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