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... wild offspring , and lay some for- mal - featured changelings of her own in their place , is but a proper punishment for my temerity in venturing into the mazes of modulation , where even those who hold the clue of science are so very ...
... wild offspring , and lay some for- mal - featured changelings of her own in their place , is but a proper punishment for my temerity in venturing into the mazes of modulation , where even those who hold the clue of science are so very ...
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... wild a flame approve ; All its joys , and pains , to others I resign , But be the vacant heart , the careless bosom mine . Then cease , oh ! cease to tempt my tender heart to love , It never can so wild a flame approve . Say , oh ! say ...
... wild a flame approve ; All its joys , and pains , to others I resign , But be the vacant heart , the careless bosom mine . Then cease , oh ! cease to tempt my tender heart to love , It never can so wild a flame approve . Say , oh ! say ...
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... wild , to last . Not ev'n hope could now deceive me , Life itself looks dark and cold ; Oh ! thou never more canst give me One dear smile like those of old ! THE YOUNG ROSE . THE young Rose which I give thee , so dewy and bright , Was ...
... wild , to last . Not ev'n hope could now deceive me , Life itself looks dark and cold ; Oh ! thou never more canst give me One dear smile like those of old ! THE YOUNG ROSE . THE young Rose which I give thee , so dewy and bright , Was ...
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... wild alarm Love's gentle power might not appear , He gave to glory's brow the charm , That made e'en danger dear . And then , when vict'ry's calm came o'er The hearts where rage has ceas'd to burn , I heard that farewell voice once more ...
... wild alarm Love's gentle power might not appear , He gave to glory's brow the charm , That made e'en danger dear . And then , when vict'ry's calm came o'er The hearts where rage has ceas'd to burn , I heard that farewell voice once more ...
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... most sweet , 1 scarce can call it mine . * This is one of the many instances in which I have sacrificed Metre , ( and I may add Sense , ) to the wild structure of the air . But when to me alone Your secret tears you show 34 MELODIES .
... most sweet , 1 scarce can call it mine . * This is one of the many instances in which I have sacrificed Metre , ( and I may add Sense , ) to the wild structure of the air . But when to me alone Your secret tears you show 34 MELODIES .
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