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... 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 .
... 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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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 appease ...
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 appease ...
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It stands a sign most sure to me and you , That we in wisdom's 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 ...
It stands a sign most sure to me and you , That we in wisdom's 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 ...
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The Spring invites the happy hour to gain 115 The enjoyment equal of them both ; they twain Combined the patient angler now enjoysHe fishes , contemplates , away from noise ; Thus contemplation , action , fill the hour Of happy pastime ...
The Spring invites the happy hour to gain 115 The enjoyment equal of them both ; they twain Combined the patient angler now enjoysHe fishes , contemplates , away from noise ; Thus contemplation , action , fill the hour Of happy pastime ...
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... 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 . 19.
... 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 . 19.
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| Title | The Seasons: a Poem |
| Author | Oliver Raymond |
| Published | 1878 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 9 Aug 2006 |
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