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ARTHUR WALLIS beautiful Bertha Bishop of Chichester bless blest blossom bosom bower breast breathe bright Brighton Brother brow cleft the foam cold grave-stone CRYSTAL PALACE earth fair fill'd gaz'd gaze gentle hand Hark hast hath heart Heaven Iron is hot JAMES GARBETT knell live lonely look Lord lov'd lyre meant by Poesy meridian height mighty mighty heart MISER'S DREAM morn Mother Mother's love Mournfully doth mourns the dead mystery Nature's Neath night noble Nursling o'er Old Don't Care pass'd peasant perchance Poet's Poetry pray pray'd Price 18 PRYME reach'd Richard Realf ROBERT FOLTHORP Search ye SERMON small 8vo smile song sorrow Sortain soul spell spirit strange sweet TALE teach tear thee thou shalt thought thousand thro Toil on toil Trinity College Truth turn'd Twas twill unto volume wave rode gallantly weep whispers wild William Page Wood ye fought
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