The Brighter Age: A Poem. ...Crocker & Brewster, 1830 - 91 pages |
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... crimes , such damning crimes I may Crave Thy forgiveness - let these monsters be Forgiven , to tell how rich Thy grace and free ! The slave - ship ! foulest prison - house of death , Freighted with woe , polluted with pent breath , No ...
... crimes , such damning crimes I may Crave Thy forgiveness - let these monsters be Forgiven , to tell how rich Thy grace and free ! The slave - ship ! foulest prison - house of death , Freighted with woe , polluted with pent breath , No ...
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... crimes , of woes ! They fill this mournful earth , this vale of grief , Exceed all computation , all belief . From cot to palace , courtly lord to slave , All drink of misery , ere they reach the grave . Some pine in dungeons , dismal ...
... crimes , of woes ! They fill this mournful earth , this vale of grief , Exceed all computation , all belief . From cot to palace , courtly lord to slave , All drink of misery , ere they reach the grave . Some pine in dungeons , dismal ...
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... crime and misery , Intemperance ! what hand can picture thee ? A foul , polluted , loathsome , deadly vice ; With swaggering gait , with swollen ideot eyes ; Thy vitals rotten , and thy noisome breath A vapor , from the sepulchres of ...
... crime and misery , Intemperance ! what hand can picture thee ? A foul , polluted , loathsome , deadly vice ; With swaggering gait , with swollen ideot eyes ; Thy vitals rotten , and thy noisome breath A vapor , from the sepulchres of ...
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... , miserable race ! Oh ! what on earth can crimes so deep efface ? A sin so black - a life so foul and base , Almost outreaches Heaven's reclaiming grace . Yet there is one in sacred record given , To 60 THE BRIGHTER AGE .
... , miserable race ! Oh ! what on earth can crimes so deep efface ? A sin so black - a life so foul and base , Almost outreaches Heaven's reclaiming grace . Yet there is one in sacred record given , To 60 THE BRIGHTER AGE .
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... crimes " were many , " they were quick forgiven ; " She who loved much " on earth , loves more in Heaven . And sordid sins , like sensual , are base . Observe the miser - mark his haggard face ! To him the universe contains but one ...
... crimes " were many , " they were quick forgiven ; " She who loved much " on earth , loves more in Heaven . And sordid sins , like sensual , are base . Observe the miser - mark his haggard face ! To him the universe contains but one ...
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