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... night and day , have mercy , Lord , on me ! October's blast comes in with boast , and makes the flow'rs to fall ; Then man appears to fifty years , age doth on him call : old The almond tree doth flourish hie , and pale grows X.
... night and day , have mercy , Lord , on me ! October's blast comes in with boast , and makes the flow'rs to fall ; Then man appears to fifty years , age doth on him call : old The almond tree doth flourish hie , and pale grows X.
Page xi
... night and day , that death shall him assail . And if there be , thro ' natur stout , some that live ten years more ; Or if he creepeth up and down , till he comes to fourscore ; Yet all this time is but a line , no pleasure can he see ...
... night and day , that death shall him assail . And if there be , thro ' natur stout , some that live ten years more ; Or if he creepeth up and down , till he comes to fourscore ; Yet all this time is but a line , no pleasure can he see ...
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Robert Hartley Cromek. Then may he say , both night and day , have mercy , Lord , on me ! Thus have I shown you as I can , the course of all mens ' life ; We will return where we began , but * either sturt or strife : Dame Memorie doth ...
Robert Hartley Cromek. Then may he say , both night and day , have mercy , Lord , on me ! Thus have I shown you as I can , the course of all mens ' life ; We will return where we began , but * either sturt or strife : Dame Memorie doth ...
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... poems owe their origin to models of a similar description , however inferior . To the Farmer's Ingle we owe the Cottar's Satur- day Night : to the rude and artless offspring of for- gotten bards we owe some of his most exquisite lyri- XV.
... poems owe their origin to models of a similar description , however inferior . To the Farmer's Ingle we owe the Cottar's Satur- day Night : to the rude and artless offspring of for- gotten bards we owe some of his most exquisite lyri- XV.
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... the country people ( of Cumberland ) pass the wintry nights , and of which the author of the present piece was a faithful rehearser . Blacklock's Poems , 1756 , 8vo . p . 5 . To Nanny raise the cheerful lay , O ! bid 6.
... the country people ( of Cumberland ) pass the wintry nights , and of which the author of the present piece was a faithful rehearser . Blacklock's Poems , 1756 , 8vo . p . 5 . To Nanny raise the cheerful lay , O ! bid 6.
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