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A woman , sitting in the sun with half - shut eyes , her pipe gone out , perhaps , her head resting against the door - post , is quite satisfied and happy . The boy in the jolting car , even though he sings , is half asleep .
A woman , sitting in the sun with half - shut eyes , her pipe gone out , perhaps , her head resting against the door - post , is quite satisfied and happy . The boy in the jolting car , even though he sings , is half asleep .
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Woe to you , woe ! if those inhuman eyes Can spare no drops to mourn your country's weal ; Shrinking before your selfish miseries ; Against the common sorrow hard as steel ; Tremble ! the hand of death upon you lies ; You may be forced ...
Woe to you , woe ! if those inhuman eyes Can spare no drops to mourn your country's weal ; Shrinking before your selfish miseries ; Against the common sorrow hard as steel ; Tremble ! the hand of death upon you lies ; You may be forced ...
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Hide from me , hide those soldiers overborne , Broken with toil , with death - bolts crushed and tornThose quivering limbs with dust defiled , And bloody corses upon corses piled ; Veil from mine eyes that monument Of nation against ...
Hide from me , hide those soldiers overborne , Broken with toil , with death - bolts crushed and tornThose quivering limbs with dust defiled , And bloody corses upon corses piled ; Veil from mine eyes that monument Of nation against ...
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... for their brave career Smote on the foe : they fixed the pensive eye , And first beheld them undisturbed with fear . ... Whose threatening features still their conquerors brave ; Frozen in death , those eyes are terrible ; Feats of ...
... for their brave career Smote on the foe : they fixed the pensive eye , And first beheld them undisturbed with fear . ... Whose threatening features still their conquerors brave ; Frozen in death , those eyes are terrible ; Feats of ...
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O ye who suffer , victims of oppression , O'er whom God watches with an eye paternal , To stranger shores the pilgrims of a moment . Rejoice ! ye are immortal ! ” “ That is well , ” said Robespierre to the poet , who expected punishment ...
O ye who suffer , victims of oppression , O'er whom God watches with an eye paternal , To stranger shores the pilgrims of a moment . Rejoice ! ye are immortal ! ” “ That is well , ” said Robespierre to the poet , who expected punishment ...
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