Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 30W. Blackwood & Sons, 1831 - Scotland |
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This guest of summer , The temple - haunting martlet , does approve , By his lov'd mansionry , that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here ; no jutty , frieze , buttress , Nor coigne of vantage , but this bird hath made His pendent ...
This guest of summer , The temple - haunting martlet , does approve , By his lov'd mansionry , that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here ; no jutty , frieze , buttress , Nor coigne of vantage , but this bird hath made His pendent ...
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