Juvenile poemsJ. French, 1777 - 195 pages |
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... Hear how the birds , on ev'ry bloomy spray , With joyous mufic wake the dawning day ! Why fit we mute , when early linnets fing , When warbling Philomel falutes the spring ? Why fit we fad , when Phosphor fhines fo clear , And lavish ...
... Hear how the birds , on ev'ry bloomy spray , With joyous mufic wake the dawning day ! Why fit we mute , when early linnets fing , When warbling Philomel falutes the spring ? Why fit we fad , when Phosphor fhines fo clear , And lavish ...
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... Hear what from Love unpractis'd hearts endure , From Love , the fole disease thou canst not cure . Ye fhady beeches , and ye cooling streams , Defence from Phoebus ' , not from Cupid's beams , To you I mourn , nor to the deaf I fing ...
... Hear what from Love unpractis'd hearts endure , From Love , the fole disease thou canst not cure . Ye fhady beeches , and ye cooling streams , Defence from Phoebus ' , not from Cupid's beams , To you I mourn , nor to the deaf I fing ...
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... hear the pow'rful call , And headlong streams hang list'ning in their fall ! But fee , the shepherds fhun the noon - day heat , The lowing herds to murm'ring brooks retreat , To clofer shades the panting flocks remove ; Ye Gods ! and is ...
... hear the pow'rful call , And headlong streams hang list'ning in their fall ! But fee , the shepherds fhun the noon - day heat , The lowing herds to murm'ring brooks retreat , To clofer shades the panting flocks remove ; Ye Gods ! and is ...
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... hear ; But tell the reeds , and tell the vocal fhore , Fair Daphne's dead , and mufic is no more ! Her fate is whisper'd by the gentle breeze , And told in fighs to all the trembling trees ; The trembling trees , in every plain and wood ...
... hear ; But tell the reeds , and tell the vocal fhore , Fair Daphne's dead , and mufic is no more ! Her fate is whisper'd by the gentle breeze , And told in fighs to all the trembling trees ; The trembling trees , in every plain and wood ...
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... Hear him , ye deaf , and , all ye blind , behold ! He from thick films fhall purge the visual ray , And on the fightless eye - ball pour the day : ' Tis he th ' obftructed paths of found fhall clear , And bid new mufic charm th ...
... Hear him , ye deaf , and , all ye blind , behold ! He from thick films fhall purge the visual ray , And on the fightless eye - ball pour the day : ' Tis he th ' obftructed paths of found fhall clear , And bid new mufic charm th ...
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