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... race , But chequer'd much the little space ; The self - same hours of rolling time Beheld my form in ev'ry clime . Where am I now ? As with the dead ! For ever lost , for ever fled . Can wisdom pierce the sable night , That darkly ...
... race , But chequer'd much the little space ; The self - same hours of rolling time Beheld my form in ev'ry clime . Where am I now ? As with the dead ! For ever lost , for ever fled . Can wisdom pierce the sable night , That darkly ...
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... race , I did exist . In chaos I was found , When awful darkness shed its gloom around . In heaven I dwell , in those bright realms above , And in the radiant ranks of angels move . But when th ' Almighty , by His powerful call , Made ...
... race , I did exist . In chaos I was found , When awful darkness shed its gloom around . In heaven I dwell , in those bright realms above , And in the radiant ranks of angels move . But when th ' Almighty , by His powerful call , Made ...
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... so small , you may venture to call The whole race Lilliputians by nature ; But what is more strange , the creation we range , And challenge the form of each creature ! Now a lamb we appear , now a wolf or. RIDDLE XXXIII . ...
... so small , you may venture to call The whole race Lilliputians by nature ; But what is more strange , the creation we range , And challenge the form of each creature ! Now a lamb we appear , now a wolf or. RIDDLE XXXIII . ...
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... race ; We are born amidst bustle , and riot , and noise ; We're a numerous family , all of us boys ; We are mere human creatures , like you or another , Yet to make us requires no aid from a mother ; And , what is more strange , we have ...
... race ; We are born amidst bustle , and riot , and noise ; We're a numerous family , all of us boys ; We are mere human creatures , like you or another , Yet to make us requires no aid from a mother ; And , what is more strange , we have ...
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... race : I was with Adam at the first , I witnessed his return to dust : With Noah too I did embark , To make the voyage in the ark ; And all the famous men of old , Whose feats are either sung or told , With me their early course begun ...
... race : I was with Adam at the first , I witnessed his return to dust : With Noah too I did embark , To make the voyage in the ark ; And all the famous men of old , Whose feats are either sung or told , With me their early course begun ...
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Page 97 - THE VOWELS We are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.
Page 52 - I'm now a sail, and now a mast. I here am red, and there am green, A beggar there, and here a queen. I sometimes live in a house of hair, And oft in hand of lady fair. I please the young, I grace the old, And am at once both hot and cold Say what I am then, if you can, And find the rhyme, and you're the man.