The Seasons: a Poem1878 |
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... Thus contemplation , action , fill the hour Of happy pastime , and their bliss secure . 120 Inspired old Walton , in poetic lay , Describes the virtue of a fishing day : A southern breeze to curl the lucid stream , A 16 THE SEASONS .
... Thus contemplation , action , fill the hour Of happy pastime , and their bliss secure . 120 Inspired old Walton , in poetic lay , Describes the virtue of a fishing day : A southern breeze to curl the lucid stream , A 16 THE SEASONS .
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... stream incline : 130 When hooked , your victim play with careful hand , - With clumsy careless pull , no fish you'll land : On mercy bent , your captured fish straight kill , And spare them pain ere they your pannier fill . Fish , flesh ...
... stream incline : 130 When hooked , your victim play with careful hand , - With clumsy careless pull , no fish you'll land : On mercy bent , your captured fish straight kill , And spare them pain ere they your pannier fill . Fish , flesh ...
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... stream , whose view commands The sight of barren rock , of fertile plain , And distance bounded by the mountain chain . 150 Adown the vale is heard the murmuring rill ; Swept with the singing breeze , their voices fill Th ' ambrosial ...
... stream , whose view commands The sight of barren rock , of fertile plain , And distance bounded by the mountain chain . 150 Adown the vale is heard the murmuring rill ; Swept with the singing breeze , their voices fill Th ' ambrosial ...
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... streams ) 175 To share in part , and recognise the sign Of brighter scenes above , not earthly , but divine . Allowed , the river stream may aptly show ' The lasting state ' ' mid Nature's works below ; Explained the cause why poets old ...
... streams ) 175 To share in part , and recognise the sign Of brighter scenes above , not earthly , but divine . Allowed , the river stream may aptly show ' The lasting state ' ' mid Nature's works below ; Explained the cause why poets old ...
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... we might this toil his pastime deem ) , Plunging his sheep within the turbid stream . The woolly captives struggle , but in vain , Their master collars each with might and r 195 Floats them , at length , adown the shallow SPRING . 21.
... we might this toil his pastime deem ) , Plunging his sheep within the turbid stream . The woolly captives struggle , but in vain , Their master collars each with might and r 195 Floats them , at length , adown the shallow SPRING . 21.
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