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... thou look around , Upon the waving trees and meadows green ? Canst listen to the universal sound Of joy and gladness filling ev'ry scene ? Canst see the stars benignant shine at e'en ? Canst feel the breeze refresh thy sullen brow , And ...
... thou look around , Upon the waving trees and meadows green ? Canst listen to the universal sound Of joy and gladness filling ev'ry scene ? Canst see the stars benignant shine at e'en ? Canst feel the breeze refresh thy sullen brow , And ...
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... thou'st given to me Time enough for one like thee . Thou hast talents great and high , Improve the moments as they fly ! Think how blessed a thing is life , With heavenly thoughts and wishes rife . Grudge one instant of aught so bright ...
... thou'st given to me Time enough for one like thee . Thou hast talents great and high , Improve the moments as they fly ! Think how blessed a thing is life , With heavenly thoughts and wishes rife . Grudge one instant of aught so bright ...
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... thou , poor scorn'd and wither'd flower , With wealth and grandeur unallied , Shalt see ere long the happy hour , When men , from falseness purified , Shall learn to estimate the worth Of all the toiling sons of earth . THE BIRD AND THE ...
... thou , poor scorn'd and wither'd flower , With wealth and grandeur unallied , Shalt see ere long the happy hour , When men , from falseness purified , Shall learn to estimate the worth Of all the toiling sons of earth . THE BIRD AND THE ...
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... thou not know , that the eyes below , That oftener weep than smile , Sometimes better look on fair Nature's book Tho ' glistening all the while ? " EVENING . How like a tender mother , With loving 30 THE WILLOW AND THE LILY .
... thou not know , that the eyes below , That oftener weep than smile , Sometimes better look on fair Nature's book Tho ' glistening all the while ? " EVENING . How like a tender mother , With loving 30 THE WILLOW AND THE LILY .
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... temples , and palaces — all of them fly From a ray of the sun or the burst of a sigh : In silence they rose on the moisten'd pane , And as silently sink into water again . D REGRETS . I. BEAUTIFUL Sun ! thou shinest as bright 3333.
... temples , and palaces — all of them fly From a ray of the sun or the burst of a sigh : In silence they rose on the moisten'd pane , And as silently sink into water again . D REGRETS . I. BEAUTIFUL Sun ! thou shinest as bright 3333.
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12 Engravings 24 Engravings Abbé Anec ANECDOTES Author BARWELL beautiful bird Blockley bloom blossoms breath breeze bright cheerful child CHILDREN cloth coloured Croydon delight ditto dream e'en Eight copies England's shall remain eyes fair Farewell to thee feel flow'ret flowers Foolscap 8vo Frontispiece gentle GEOGRAPHY gone half-bound morocco happy heart Highbury HISTORY hope Illustrated with 24 ISAAC TAYLOR Isle of Wight Islington LESSONS light look lute lyre MAMMA'S BIBLE STORIES meadows green merry England's MIND THOSE VANISH'D Miss morning mortal mountain Muse neath never night o'er Paradise-terrace PARLOUR GAMES pass'd perchance plain poet poor Price Princes-street SCENES sea is merry Second Edition seem'd sigh silent sing Sixth Edition smile song sorrow spirit spring summer breeze SUN AND SHADE sweet Tale tears things thought thro tion trees TURRET CLOCK VIII wind Woodcuts WORLD'S COMPLAINT young
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