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... shine on for ever . " We thought of the words of Peter , " All these things shall be dissolved . " And then we fancied an invisible animalcule inhabiting one of the mountain peaks of a furnace , looking abroad from one of its surging ...
... shine on for ever . " We thought of the words of Peter , " All these things shall be dissolved . " And then we fancied an invisible animalcule inhabiting one of the mountain peaks of a furnace , looking abroad from one of its surging ...
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... shines ; And , one day , thou shalt pluck him from his sphere . Amid such mighty plunder , why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? 185 193 ...
... shines ; And , one day , thou shalt pluck him from his sphere . Amid such mighty plunder , why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? 185 193 ...
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... shine . Ye well - array'd ! ye lilies of our land ! Ye lilies male ! who neither toil nor spin ( As sister lilies might ) , if not so wise As Solomon , more sumptuous to the sight ! Ye delicate ! who nothing can support , Yourselves ...
... shine . Ye well - array'd ! ye lilies of our land ! Ye lilies male ! who neither toil nor spin ( As sister lilies might ) , if not so wise As Solomon , more sumptuous to the sight ! Ye delicate ! who nothing can support , Yourselves ...
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... shines . Reason should judge in all ; in reason's eye , That sedentary shadow travels hard . But such our gravitation to the wrong , So prone our hearts to whisper what we wish , " Tis later with the wise than he's aware : A Wilmington ...
... shines . Reason should judge in all ; in reason's eye , That sedentary shadow travels hard . But such our gravitation to the wrong , So prone our hearts to whisper what we wish , " Tis later with the wise than he's aware : A Wilmington ...
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... shine with azure , green , and gold ; How blessings brighten as they take their flight ! His flight Philander took ; his upward flight , If ever soul ascended . Had he dropp'd ( That eagle genius ! ) , oh ! had he let fall One feather ...
... shine with azure , green , and gold ; How blessings brighten as they take their flight ! His flight Philander took ; his upward flight , If ever soul ascended . Had he dropp'd ( That eagle genius ! ) , oh ! had he let fall One feather ...
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