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Charles Dudley Warner
R.S. Peale and J.A. Hill, 1896

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Página 8550 - are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust. xxvii Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about; but evermore Came out by the same door wherein I went.
Página 8241 - plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt and our towns, & destroyed the lives of our people. war waging against us. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation & tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty
Página 8549 - xx And this reviving Herb whose tender Green Fledges the River-Lip on which we lean — Ah, lean upon it lightly! for who knows From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen! XXI Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears TO-DAY of past Regrets and future Fears: To-morrow! — Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Seven thousand Years.
Página 8502 - lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow. Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards. But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her
Página 8549 - OMAR KHAYYAM XV And those who husbanded the Golden grain, And those who flung it to the winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turned As, buried once, Men want dug up again. XVI The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon,
Página 8558 - Sue for a Debt he never did contract, And cannot answer — Oh the sorry trade! LXXX Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin! LXXXI Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And
Página 8558 - LXXXI Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And e'en with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened — Man's forgiveness give — and take! LXXXII As under cover of departing Day Slunk hunger-stricken
Página 8549 - As, buried once, Men want dug up again. XVI The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.
Página 8559 - twill all be well." LXXXIX "Well," murmured one, "Let whoso make or buy, My Clay with long Oblivion is gone dry; But fill me with the old familiar Juice, Methinks I might recover by-and-by." xc So while the Vessels one by one were speaking, The little Moon looked in that all were seeking:
Página 8357 - thought him one, He played so truly. So, by error, to his fate They all consented; But viewing him since, alas, too late! They have repented; And have sought, to give new birth. In baths to steep him: But being so much too good for earth, Heaven vows to keep him. ON

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