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ainsi depuis une semaine la longue roideur de ma veine bat ma chemise et mon pourpoint
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a seasoned scrivener bred in office low full often dupes and mocks the gaping crow francis
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her pure and eloquent blood spoke in her cheeks and so distinctly wrought that one would almost say her body thought
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wi' woo' like goats an' legs like trams she was the flower o' farlie lambs a famous breed
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sir wisdom's a fool when he's fou sir knave is a fool in a session but i am a fool by profession
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this list wi' my ain hand i wrote it the day and date as under noted then know all ye whom it concerns
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then howe'er crowns and coronets be rent a virtuous populace may rise the while and stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd isle
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for britain's guid for her destruction wi' dissipation feud an' faction
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sure great folk's life's a life o' pleasure nae cauld or hunger e'er can steer them the vera thought o't need na fear them
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but mete his cunning by the old scots ell his meddling vanity a busy fiend still making work his selfish craft must mend
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the paly moon rose in the livid east in weeds of woe that frantic beat her breast and mix'd her wailings with the raving storm
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and in an instant all was dark and scarcely had he maggie rallied when out the hellish legion sallied
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gay pleasure ran riot as bumpers ran o'er and vow'd that to leave them he was quite forlorn till cynthia hinted he'd find them next morn
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the gallant sir robert fought hard to the end but who can with fate and quart-bumpers contend though fate said a hero shall perish in light
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while virgin spring by eden's flood unfolds her tender mantle green or pranks the sod in frolic mood
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may bliss domestic smooth his private path give energy to life and soothe his latest breath with many a filial tear circling the bed of death
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had i a statue been o' stane his darin' look had daunted me and on his bonnet grav'd was plain
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sing on sweet thrush upon the leafless bough sing on sweet bird i listen to thy strain at thy blythe carol clears his furrow'd brow
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the friend whom wild from wisdom's way the fumes of wine infuriate send who but deplores that hapless friend
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simple wild enchanting elf not to thee but thanks to nature thou art acting but thyself
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since thou in all thy youth and charms must bid the world adieu to join the friendly few
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behind yon hills where lugar flows the wintry sun the day has closed and i'll awa to nannie o
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she's sweeter than the morning dawn and dew-drops twinkle o'er the lawn an' she has twa sparkling roguish een
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her looks are like the vernal may while birds rejoice on every spray an' she has twa sparkling roguish een
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her breath is like the fragrant breeze that gently stirs the blossom'd bean an' she has twa sparkling roguish een
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there lived a carle on kellyburn braes and he had a wife was the plague o' his days and the thyme it is wither'd and rue is in prime
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ae day as the carle gaed up the lang glen he met wi' the devil says how do yow fen and the thyme it is wither'd and rue is in prime
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i've got a bad wife sir that's a' my complaint for saving your presence to her ye're a saint and the thyme it is wither'd and rue is in prime
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it's neither your stot nor your staig i shall crave but gie me your wife man for her i must have and the thyme it is wither'd and rue is in prime
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o welcome most kindly the blythe carle said but if ye can match her ye're waur nor ye're ca'd and the thyme it is wither'd and rue is in prime
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the devil has got the auld wife on his back and like a poor pedlar he's carried his pack and the thyme it is wither'd and rue is in prime
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then straight he makes fifty the pick o' his band turn out on her guard in the clap of a hand and the thyme it is wither'd and rue is in prime
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the carlin gaed thro' them like ony wud bear whate'er she gat hands on cam near her nae mair and the thyme it is wither'd and rue is in prime
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a reekit wee devil looks over the wa o help master help or she'll ruin us a and the thyme it is wither'd and rue is in prime
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the devil he swore by the edge o' his knife he pitied the man that was tied to a wife and the thyme it is wither'd and rue is in prime
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the devil he swore by the kirk and the bell he was not in wedlock thank heav'n but in hell and the thyme it is wither'd and rue is in prime
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then satan has travelled again wi' his pack and to her auld husband he's carried her back and the thyme it is wither'd and rue is in prime
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i hae been a devil the feck o' my life but ne'er was in hell till i met wi' a wife and the thyme it is wither'd and rue is in prime
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her voice is the song of the morning that wakes thro' the green-spreading grove on music and pleasure and love
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may cauld ne'er catch you but a hap nor hunger but in plenty's lap amen
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no scuptur'd marble here nor pompous lay this simple stone directs pale scotia's way to pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust
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dark as was chaos ere the infant sun was roll'd together or had tried his beams athwart the gloom profound
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rude am i in speech and therefore little can i grace my cause in speaking for myself
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rude am i in my speech and little therefore shall i grace my cause in speaking for myself
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and we're a' noddin nid nid noddin we're a' noddin fou at e'en
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dark as was chaos ere the infant sun was roll'd together or had try'd his beams athwart their gloom profound
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vapours and clouds and storms until he terrify himself at combustion of his own raising
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tell us ye dead will none of you in pity disclose the secret what 'tis you are and we must shortly be
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attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds and offices of life to life itself with all its vain and transient joys sit loose
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oh there beyond expression blest i'd feast on beauty a' the night seal'd on her silk-saft faulds to rest
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or play to sportive children on the green dancing at gloamin hour or willing cheer with strains unbought the shepherd's bridal day
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but for my secret thoughts which i withhold from all in heaven beside them search not thou with irksome curiosity and vain
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sarpedon with the noble glaucus led their warriors forth from farthest lycia where xanthus deep-dimpled rolls his oozy tide
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arriving at the hosts of greece and troy they left the chariot and proceeded both into the interval between the hosts
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for never since the day when thee i bore thy beauty loved i as i love thee now or felt such sweetness of intense desire
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the royal agamemnon sighing grasp'd the hand of menelaus and while all their followers sigh'd around them thus began
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he spake whom with a frowning brow the brave tydides answer'd sthenelus my friend
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so elephenor fell for whom arose sharp conflict greeks and trojans mutual flew like wolves to battle and man grappled man
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let none desirous of the spoil his time devote to plunder now now slay your foes and strip them when the field shall be your own
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for oeneus on a time full twenty days regaled bellerophon and pledges fair of hospitality they interchanged
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the steeds beside the chariots stood their corn chewing and waiting till the golden-throned aurora should restore the light of day
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these will i give and will with these resign most solemn that unconscious as she was of my embraces such i yield her his
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these will he give and will with these resign most solemn that unconscious as she was of his embraces such he yields her back
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son of bold tydeus think on thy return to yonder fleet lest thou depart constrain'd
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so spake polydamas whose safe advice pleased hector from his chariot to the ground all arm'd he leap'd nor would a trojan there
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we are three brothers saturn is our sire and rhea brought us forth first jove she bore me next then pluto sovereign of the shades
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as when the east wind and the south contend to shake some deep wood on the mountain's side or beech or ash or rugged cornel old
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for when patroclus fell the friend was slain of such a chief as is not in the fleet for valor and his bands are dauntless all
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much radiant armor round about the foss fell of the flying grecians or within lay scatter'd and no pause of war they found
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patroclus is no more the grecians fight for his bare corse and hector hath his arms
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she like a falcon from the snowy top stoop'd of olympus bearing to the earth the dazzling wonder fresh from vulcan's hand
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thou wilt be found false and this word of thine shall want performance but olympian jove
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atrides most illustrious king of men
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the tongue of man is voluble hath words for every theme nor wants wide field and long and as he speaks so shall he hear again
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haste follow her ah shameless how she leads gore-tainted mars through all the host of heaven
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i call for two brave warriors arm'd to prove each other's skill with weapons keen this prize disputing next in presence of us all
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meantime apollo with compassion touch'd even of the lifeless hector from all taint covering preserved him although dragg'd untorn
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but i ere yet the city i behold taken and pillaged with these aged eyes shall find safe hiding in the shades below
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so saying he waken'd in his soul regret of his own sire softly he placed his hand on priam's hand and push'd him gently away
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then in the vestibule the herald slept and priam prudent both but peleus' son in the interior tent and at his side
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the tomb once heap'd assembling all again within the palace they a banquet shared magnificent by godlike priam given
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part huge of bulk wallowing unwieldy enormous in their gait tempest the ocean
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for i deem him wont to pray since all of every land need succor from the gods
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there lay telemachus on finest wool reposed contemplating all night his course prescribed by pallas to the pylian shore
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it hath commodious havens into which a passage clear opens on either side and there the ambush'd greeks his coming watch'd
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olli certamine summo procumbunt virgil
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down the oceanus the current bore my galley winning at the first her way with oars then wafted by propitious gales
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thus arm'd he sought his wonted couch beneath a hollow rock where the herd slept secure from the sharp current of the northern blast
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at once the son of the illustrious chief slung his keen faulchion grasp'd his spear and stood arm'd bright for battle at his father's side
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behemoth biggest born of earth upheav'd his vastness milton
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nativity once in the main of light: when a star has risen and entered on the full stream of light another of the astrological phrases no longer familiar
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a noble peer: robert devereux second lord essex then at the height of his brief triumph after taking cadiz: hence the allusion following to the pillars of hercules placed near gades by ancient legend
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whist: hushed pan: used here for the lord of all lars and lemures: household gods and spirits of relations dead flamens: roman priests that twice-batter'd god: dagon
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orpheus was torn to pieces by thracian women amaryllis and neaera names used here for the love idols of poets: as damoetas previously for a shepherd
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the pilot: saint peter figuratively introduced as the head of the church on earth to foretell the ruin of our corrupted clergy then in their heighth under laud's primacy
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sydneian showers: either in allusion to the conversations in the arcadia or to sidney himself as a model of gentleness in spirit and demeanour
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if not in their origin in their present form this and the two preceding poems appear due to the seventeenth century and have therefore been placed in book ii
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hecht: promised the obsolete hight mavis: thrush ilka: every lav'rock: lark haughs: valley-meadows twined: parted from marrow: mate syne then
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nothing except his surname appears recoverable with regard to the author of this truly noble poem: it should be noted as exhibiting a rare excellence the climax of simple sublimity
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that to find in chapman's homer the pure serene of the original the reader must bring with him the imagination of the youthful poet he must be a greek himself as shelley finely said of keats
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