Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... beneath the moon , Here pinions all his wishes ; wing'd by Heav'n To fly at infinite , and reach it there , Where seraphs gather immortality , On life's fair tree , fast by the throne of God . What golden joys ambrosial clust'ring glow ...
... beneath the moon , Here pinions all his wishes ; wing'd by Heav'n To fly at infinite , and reach it there , Where seraphs gather immortality , On life's fair tree , fast by the throne of God . What golden joys ambrosial clust'ring glow ...
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... influence of whose giddy dance Sheds sad vicissitude on all beneath . Here teems with revolutions every hour , 190 And rarely for the better or the best , More mortal than the common births of Fate . Each 12 Night I. THE COMPLAINT .
... influence of whose giddy dance Sheds sad vicissitude on all beneath . Here teems with revolutions every hour , 190 And rarely for the better or the best , More mortal than the common births of Fate . Each 12 Night I. THE COMPLAINT .
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... beneath , we groan beneath an hour . 130 We cry for mercy to the next amusement ; The next amusement mortgages our fields ; Slight inconvenience ! prisons hardly frown , From hateful time if prisons set us free . Yet when death kindly ...
... beneath , we groan beneath an hour . 130 We cry for mercy to the next amusement ; The next amusement mortgages our fields ; Slight inconvenience ! prisons hardly frown , From hateful time if prisons set us free . Yet when death kindly ...
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... beneath the skies ; The skies , which watch him in his new abode , 210 Measuring his motions by revolving spheres ; That horologe machinery divine . Hours , days , and months , and years , his children , play , Like num'rous wings ...
... beneath the skies ; The skies , which watch him in his new abode , 210 Measuring his motions by revolving spheres ; That horologe machinery divine . Hours , days , and months , and years , his children , play , Like num'rous wings ...
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... beneath . Has Death his fopperies ? Then well may Life Put on her plume , and in her rainbow shine . Ye well array'd ! ye lilies of our land ! Ye lilies male ! who neither toil nor spin , ( As sister lilies might ) if not so wise As ...
... beneath . Has Death his fopperies ? Then well may Life Put on her plume , and in her rainbow shine . Ye well array'd ! ye lilies of our land ! Ye lilies male ! who neither toil nor spin , ( As sister lilies might ) if not so wise As ...
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