Does youth, does beauty, read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead Maria ! breathe a strain divine: Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in duty's sphere... Musings of a Recluse ... - Page 54by John Barton Derby - 1837 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1880 - 670 pages
...and opened at the tender tribute of Mason to his dead wife. I at once recited : " Speak, dead Maria ! breathe a strain divine ; Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move ; And if as fair,... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...Does youth, does beauty, read the line 1 Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm? Speak, dead Maria! breathe a strain divine: Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. 2 Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so... | |
| Episcopal Church. Diocese of North Carolina - 1892 - 492 pages
...youth, does beauty read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breast alarm ? Speak, dead Burchatt ! breathe a strain divine; Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them give each day the merit and renown Of dying well, though doomed but once to die. 37o The young... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1896 - 546 pages
...youth, does beauty, read the line? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead Maria ; breathe a strain divine : Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move ; An'd if so... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1905 - 292 pages
...youth, does beauty read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead Maria ! breathe a strain divine ; Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move : And if so fair, from vanity as free, As firm in friendship,... | |
| Percy Melville Thornton - 1912 - 398 pages
...youth, does beauty read the line, Does sympathetic fear their breast alarm, Speak, lost, loved Lucy ; breathe a strain divine, Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent like thee, Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move, And if as fair... | |
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