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In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.
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- Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell: 'T is virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
- How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes bless'd!
- By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps t…
- Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part; Nature in him was almost lost in Art.
- To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spr…
- Each lonely scene shall thee restore; For thee the tear be duly shed; Beloved till life can charm no more, And mourn'd till Pity's self be …
- Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small bu…
- For when thy folding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant hours, and elves Who slept in buds the day, And …