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Page 349 - Through the high wood echoing shrill: Sometime walking, not unseen, By Hedge-row Elms, on Hillocks green, Right against the Eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state...
Page 115 - It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Page 9 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 349 - Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, ' Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 288 - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Merchant's Clerk: And Other Tales The Merchant's Clerk: And Other Tales, Samuel Warren |
| Author | Samuel Warren |
| Publisher | Harper, 1836 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Nov 15, 2007 |
| Length | 366 pages |
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