The Oxford Book of Christian VerseDavid Cecil Clarendon, 1940 - 560 pages Lord David Cecil, well known for his writings, and particularly for his brilliant lives of the poet Cowper and of the young Lord Melbourne, has set out in this anthology to make a full and representative collection of English religious verse. |
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... King mycht get a knycht , To fecht with his persoun , To fecht with him beth day and nycht , Quhill ane wer dungin doun . The King gart seik baith fer and neir , Beth be se and land , Off ony knycht gif he mycht heir Wald fecht with ...
... King mycht get a knycht , To fecht with his persoun , To fecht with him beth day and nycht , Quhill ane wer dungin doun . The King gart seik baith fer and neir , Beth be se and land , Off ony knycht gif he mycht heir Wald fecht with ...
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... king were coming , would we do ; And ' twere good reason too ; For ' tis a duteous thing To show all honour to an earthly king , And after all our travail and our cost , So he be pleased , to think no labour lost . But at the coming of the ...
... king were coming , would we do ; And ' twere good reason too ; For ' tis a duteous thing To show all honour to an earthly king , And after all our travail and our cost , So he be pleased , to think no labour lost . But at the coming of the ...
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... King ? I all these joys , above my merit , see By thee , my King , To whom I sing , Entire convey'd to me . My treasure , Lord , thou mak'st the people be That I with pleasure might thy servants see . Ev'n in their rude external ways ...
... King ? I all these joys , above my merit , see By thee , my King , To whom I sing , Entire convey'd to me . My treasure , Lord , thou mak'st the people be That I with pleasure might thy servants see . Ev'n in their rude external ways ...
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