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such men are common here and pastoral maidens milking cows are dwelling everywhere
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wait awhile and these are dead sigh sigh be they high or lowly bred they die
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tootle tootle tootle tee can it be pride and fame must shadows be
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go with your tauntings go neer think to hurt me so i'll scoff at your disdain
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cold though the winter blow when hills are free from snow it will be spring again
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and for my freedom's sake with such i'll pattern take and rove and revel on
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your gall shall never make me honied paths forsake so prythee get thee gone
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what pleasures crowd its ways that man should take such pains to seek them all his days
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judge not thou deal'st in joy its flowers but hide the asp thy revels to destroy
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there speckled thrush by self-delight embued there sings unto himself for joy's amends and drinks the honey dew of solitude
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here poor integrity can sit at ease and list self-satisfied the song of honey-bees
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now homeward-bound the hedger bundles round his evening faggot and with every stride his leathern doublet leaves a rustling sound
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how sweet the soothing calm that smoothly stills oer the heart's every sense its opiate dews in meek-eyed moods and ever balmy trills
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play pastime all time's blotting pen concealed comes like a new-born joy to greet me in the field
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this garment hath been an old tenant with me and a needle and thread with a little good skill when i've leisure will make it stand more weathers still
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then the toper sat down with a hiccup and felt if he'd still an odd coin in his pocket to melt and he made a wry face for his pocket was bare
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o i never dreamed of parting or that trouble had a sting or that pleasures like a flock of birds would ever take to wing leaving nothing but a little naked spring
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een at st thomas tide old rover's bark hails dapple's trot an hour before it's dark
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the wind of that eternal ditty sings humming of future things that burn the mind to leave some fragment of itself behind
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a path old tree goes by thee crooking on and through this little gate that claps and bangs against thy rifted trunk what steps hath gone
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that little island on the atlantic sea was but a dust-spot in a lake: thy mind swept space as shoreless as eternity
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man earth's poor shadow talks of earth's decay but hath it nothing of eternal kin
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the cat runs races with her tail the dog leaps oer the orchard hedge and knarls the grass
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he scampered to the bushes far away the shepherd called the ploughman to the fray the ploughman wished he had a gun to shoot
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he talks to none but wends his silent way and finds a hovel at the close of day or under any hedge his house is made
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the nest was full of eggs and round i met a shepherd in the vales and stood to tell him what i found
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both keep their pace that nothing can provoke followed by brindled dog that snuffs the ground with urging bark and hurries at his heels
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where the flower in green darkness buds blossoms and fades unseen of all shepherds and flower-loving maids the hermit bees find them but once and away
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thy drapery floats so gracefully we'll walk along the meadow grass we'll stand beneath the willow tree
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to meet the cooler air and walk an angel there with the dark dishevelled hair bonny lassie o
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oak apples on the tree and wilt thou gang to see the shed i've made for thee bonny lassie o
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in a grassy nook hard by with a little patch of sky and a bush to keep us dry bonny lassie o
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there's the king-cup bright as gold and the speedwell never cold and the arum leaves unrolled bonny lassie o
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with a woodbine peeping in and the roses like thy skin blushing thy praise to win bonny lassie o
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when the bee sips in the bean and grey willow branches lean and the moonbeam looks between bonny lassie o
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the softest dreams the sweetest rest the brightest sun the bluest sky are love's own home and canopy
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winter's blast the now since then has crept between and left us both apart
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my face turned pale as deadly pale my legs refused to walk away and when she looked what could i ail
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sheep ointment seems to daub the dead-hued sky and night shuts up the lightsomeness of day all dark and absent as a corpse's eye
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god is their parent and they need no tear he takes them to his bosom from earth's woes a bud their lifetime and a flower their close
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infants have nought to weep for ere they die all prayers are needless beads they need not tell white flowers their mourners are nature their passing bell
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his little hands when flowers were seen were held for the bluebell as he was carried oer the green
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how can an infant die when butterflies are on the wing green grass and such a sky
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baker miss a e glossary of northamptonshire words and phrases
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redding cyrus fifty years' recollections: ii past celebrities whom i have known: ii sq
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project gutenberg literary archive foundation north west salt lake city ut
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religion and poetry by washington gladden
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i hay: religion and doctrine c w
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we can hardly imagine that the religious experience of mankind will ever suffer these words to drop into forgetfulness and it would seem that every passing generation must deepen their significance
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therefore although demonstration is impossible faith is rational so do those great words of the ancient sage admonish us
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thou canst not prove that thou art body alone nor canst thou prove that thou art spirit alone nor canst thou prove that thou art both in one
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sir galahad my strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure
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dina m mulock craik from a life-photograph by elliott and fry london
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o foolish boy the saint exclaimed to hope that the broad ocean in that hole should lie
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sooner augustine sooner far shall i confine the ocean in this tiny pit than finite minds conceive god's nature infinite
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the strong gods pine for my abode and pine in vain the sacred seven but thou meek lover of the good
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who gave you your invulnerable life your strength your speed your fury and your joy unceasing thunder and eternal foam
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the clouds ye so much dread are big with mercy and shall break in blessings on your head
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but trust him for his grace behind a frowning providence he hides a smiling face
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his purposes will ripen fast unfolding every hour the bud may have a bitter taste
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o thou eternal one whose presence bright all space doth occupy all motion guide
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being above all beings mighty one whom none can comprehend and none explore
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who fill'st existence with thyself alone embracing all supporting ruling o'er being whom we call god and know no more
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thou art and wert and shall be glorious great
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the chain of being is complete in me in me is matter's last gradation lost and the next step is spirit deity
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god thus alone my lowly thoughts can soar thus seek thy presence being wise and good
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midst thy vast works admire obey adore and when the tongue is eloquent no more the soul shall speak in tears of gratitude
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and all thy ways adore and every day i live i seem to love thee more and more
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of our saviour's toils and tears thou wert the passion of his heart those three and thirty years
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ill that he blesses is our good and unblessed good is ill and all is right that seems most wrong
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the lord is god he needeth not the poor device of man
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and if my heart and flesh are weak to bear an untried pain but strengthen and sustain
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nor works my faith to prove i can but give the gifts he gave and plead his love for love
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descend to us we pray cast out our sin and enter in be born in us to-day
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and that her reign had here its last fulfilling she knew such harmony alone could hold all heaven and earth in happier union
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forsake their temples dim with that twice-battered god of palestine heaven's queen and mother both
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now sits not girt with tapers' holy shine the lybic hammon shrinks his horn in vain the tyrian maids their wounded thammuz mourn
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seven hundred years and fifty-three had rome been growing up to might and now was queen of land and sea
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a thousand bells ring out and throw their joyous peals abroad and smite the darkness charmed and holy now
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so rang tertullian's sentence on the side of that unpitying phrygian sect which cried him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave
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and then she smiled and in the catacombs with eye suffused but heart inspired true on those walls subterranean where she hid
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her head in ignominy death and tombs she her good shepherd's hasty image drew and on his shoulders not a lamb a kid
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who could not sad tribute render witnessing that mother tender agonizing with her child
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make me feel thy sorrow's power that with thee i tears may shower tender mother fount of love
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make my heart with love unceasing burn toward christ the lord that pleasing i may be to him above
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holy mother this be granted that the slain one's wounds be planted firmly in my heart to bide
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of him wounded all astounded depths unbounded for me sounded all the pangs with me divide
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let me by the cross be warded by the death of christ be guarded nourished by divine supplies
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when the body death hath riven grant that to the soul be given glories bright of paradise
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three women crept at break of day a-grope along the shadowy way where joseph's tomb and garden lay
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with blanch of woe each face was white as the gray orient's waxing light brought back upon their awe-struck sight
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each on her throbbing bosom bore a burden of such fragrant store as never there had lain before
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spices the purest richest best that e'er the musky east possessed from ind to araby-the-blest
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had they with sorrow-riven hearts searched all jerusalem's costliest marts in quest of nards whose pungent arts
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should the dead sepulchre imbue with vital odors through and through 't was all their love had leave to do
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they counted not as waste that day what they had brought their lord the way
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through tragic darkness murk and dim where'er they see the faintest rim of promise all for sake of him
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myrrh-bearers still at home abroad what paths have holy women trod burdened with votive gifts for god
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rare gifts whose chiefest worth was priced by this one thought that all sufficed their spices had been bruised for christ
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abide with me fast falls the eventide the darkness deepens: lord with me abide
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