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... heart for his head still made amends ; For he never sang a malicious strain , And never was known to fail his friends . Who but he , when the captive king , By a brother betrayed , was left to rot , Would have gone disguised to seek and ...
... heart for his head still made amends ; For he never sang a malicious strain , And never was known to fail his friends . Who but he , when the captive king , By a brother betrayed , was left to rot , Would have gone disguised to seek and ...
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... heart his aim , He always made a hit . Wherever he went , the ladies dear Would very soon adore him , And , quite of course , the lords would sneer , — But never sneer before him ! Perhaps it fared with the ladies worse Than it fared ...
... heart his aim , He always made a hit . Wherever he went , the ladies dear Would very soon adore him , And , quite of course , the lords would sneer , — But never sneer before him ! Perhaps it fared with the ladies worse Than it fared ...
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... heart . Life is grateful , life is glorious , with the pulses bounding high In a warrior frame victorious : it were easy so to die . Yet to die is fearful ever ; oh , how fearful , when the sum Of the past is lengthened murder , — and a ...
... heart . Life is grateful , life is glorious , with the pulses bounding high In a warrior frame victorious : it were easy so to die . Yet to die is fearful ever ; oh , how fearful , when the sum Of the past is lengthened murder , — and a ...
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... heart , thou art a coward now ! Now call thy hireling ruffians ; bid them bring the cord and rack , And bid them strain these limbs of mine until the sinews crack ; And bid them tear the quivering flesh , break one by one each bone ...
... heart , thou art a coward now ! Now call thy hireling ruffians ; bid them bring the cord and rack , And bid them strain these limbs of mine until the sinews crack ; And bid them tear the quivering flesh , break one by one each bone ...
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... heart and pilgrimage of the poet . Mr. C. S. Middleton has pub- lished a book upon Shelley and his writ- ings ; Mr. T. J. Hogg has given a sketch of his life ; and E. J. Trelawny some recol- lections of him , as well as of Byron . None ...
... heart and pilgrimage of the poet . Mr. C. S. Middleton has pub- lished a book upon Shelley and his writ- ings ; Mr. T. J. Hogg has given a sketch of his life ; and E. J. Trelawny some recol- lections of him , as well as of Byron . None ...
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