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- How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it…
- Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
- With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
- Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing…
- From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.
- I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.
- So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.
- Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
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