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... child and happy mother , Who , all in one , one pleasing note do sing : Whose speechless song , being many , seeming one , Sings this to thee ; - " Thou single wilt prove none . " WILLIAM SHAKE- SPEARE . 1564-1616 . HOW TO LIVE TWICE 24 ...
... child and happy mother , Who , all in one , one pleasing note do sing : Whose speechless song , being many , seeming one , Sings this to thee ; - " Thou single wilt prove none . " WILLIAM SHAKE- SPEARE . 1564-1616 . HOW TO LIVE TWICE 24 ...
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... termed a poet's rage And stretched metre of an antique song : But were some child of yours alive that time , You should live twice ; -- in it and in my rhyme . WILLIAM SHAKE- SPEARE . 1564-1616 . THE UNFADING PICTURE . ENGLISH SONNETS . 25.
... termed a poet's rage And stretched metre of an antique song : But were some child of yours alive that time , You should live twice ; -- in it and in my rhyme . WILLIAM SHAKE- SPEARE . 1564-1616 . THE UNFADING PICTURE . ENGLISH SONNETS . 25.
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... child , sweet father of soft rest , Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings , Indifferent host to shepherds and to kings , Sole comforter of minds with grief oppressed ; Lo , by thy charming rod all breathing things Lie slumb ...
... child , sweet father of soft rest , Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings , Indifferent host to shepherds and to kings , Sole comforter of minds with grief oppressed ; Lo , by thy charming rod all breathing things Lie slumb ...
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... child - bed taint Purification in the old law did save , And such , as yet once more I trust to have , Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint , Came vested all in white , pure as her mind : Her face was veiled ; yet to my fancied ...
... child - bed taint Purification in the old law did save , And such , as yet once more I trust to have , Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint , Came vested all in white , pure as her mind : Her face was veiled ; yet to my fancied ...
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... child , Who turns of these proud domes the historic page , Now sunk by Time and Henry's fiercer rage . Think'st thou the warbling Muses never smiled On his lone hours ? Ingenuous views engage His thoughts on themes unclassic falsely ...
... child , Who turns of these proud domes the historic page , Now sunk by Time and Henry's fiercer rage . Think'st thou the warbling Muses never smiled On his lone hours ? Ingenuous views engage His thoughts on themes unclassic falsely ...
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