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... Sure as thy truth shall last , To Zion shall be given The brightest glories earth can yield , And brighter bliss of heaven . Psalm CXXXVII The Babylonian Captivity Along the banks where Babel's [ 2 ] TIMOTHY DWIGHT 1752-1817.
... Sure as thy truth shall last , To Zion shall be given The brightest glories earth can yield , And brighter bliss of heaven . Psalm CXXXVII The Babylonian Captivity Along the banks where Babel's [ 2 ] TIMOTHY DWIGHT 1752-1817.
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... earth drunk their blood- On old Platĉa's day ; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquered there , With arm to strike , and soul to dare , As quick , as far as they . An hour passed on- -the Turk awoke : That ...
... earth drunk their blood- On old Platĉa's day ; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquered there , With arm to strike , and soul to dare , As quick , as far as they . An hour passed on- -the Turk awoke : That ...
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... earth's proudest isle To that Bard - peasant given ! Bid thy thoughts hover o'er that spot , Boy - Minstrel , in thy dreaming hour ; And know , however low his lot , A Poet's pride and power : The pride that lifted Burns from earth ...
... earth's proudest isle To that Bard - peasant given ! Bid thy thoughts hover o'er that spot , Boy - Minstrel , in thy dreaming hour ; And know , however low his lot , A Poet's pride and power : The pride that lifted Burns from earth ...
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... earth - couch around , With the mute homage that we pay To consecrated ground . And consecrated ground it is , The last , the hallowed home of one Who lives upon all memories , Though with the buried gone . Such graves as his are ...
... earth - couch around , With the mute homage that we pay To consecrated ground . And consecrated ground it is , The last , the hallowed home of one Who lives upon all memories , Though with the buried gone . Such graves as his are ...
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... earth His fields and streams among . They linger by the Doon's low trees , And pastoral Nith , and wooded Ayr , And round thy sepulchres , Dumfries ! The poet's tomb is there . But what to them the sculptor's art , His funeral [ 24 ] ...
... earth His fields and streams among . They linger by the Doon's low trees , And pastoral Nith , and wooded Ayr , And round thy sepulchres , Dumfries ! The poet's tomb is there . But what to them the sculptor's art , His funeral [ 24 ] ...
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