The Poetical Works of William CowperFrederick Warne and Company, 1899 - 649 pages |
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... thou art , With all thy loss of empire , and though squeezed By public exigence till annual food Fails for the craving hunger of the state , Thee I account still happy , and the chief Among the nations , seeing thou art free ! My native ...
... thou art , With all thy loss of empire , and though squeezed By public exigence till annual food Fails for the craving hunger of the state , Thee I account still happy , and the chief Among the nations , seeing thou art free ! My native ...
Page 340
... Thy lamp , mysterious Word ! Which whoso sees no longer wanders lost With intellects bemazed in endless doubt , But runs the road of wisdom . Thou hast built , With means that were not till by Thee employ'd , Worlds that had never been ...
... Thy lamp , mysterious Word ! Which whoso sees no longer wanders lost With intellects bemazed in endless doubt , But runs the road of wisdom . Thou hast built , With means that were not till by Thee employ'd , Worlds that had never been ...
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... thou art she . My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead , Say , wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son , Wretch even then , life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me , though ...
... thou art she . My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead , Say , wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son , Wretch even then , life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me , though ...
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