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Page 276 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Oliver Cromwell |
| Author | Samuel Rawson Gardiner |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, and Company, 1901 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 4, 2007 |
| Length | 319 pages |
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