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... morn , and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless ; so that scarce The bittern knows his time , with bill ingulfed , To shake the sounding marsh ; or from the shore The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath , And sing their ...
... morn , and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless ; so that scarce The bittern knows his time , with bill ingulfed , To shake the sounding marsh ; or from the shore The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath , And sing their ...
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... morn aloft Waves her dew - bespangled wing , With vermil cheek and whisper soft , She woos the tardy Spring ; Till April starts , and calls around The sleeping fragrance from the ground , And lightly o'er the living scene Scatters his ...
... morn aloft Waves her dew - bespangled wing , With vermil cheek and whisper soft , She woos the tardy Spring ; Till April starts , and calls around The sleeping fragrance from the ground , And lightly o'er the living scene Scatters his ...
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... morn - illumined West , ' t is time to sow . Know too they set , immerged into the sun , While forty days entire their circle run ; And with the lapse of the revolving year , When sharpened is the sickle , reäppear . Law of the fields ...
... morn - illumined West , ' t is time to sow . Know too they set , immerged into the sun , While forty days entire their circle run ; And with the lapse of the revolving year , When sharpened is the sickle , reäppear . Law of the fields ...
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... morn , That so thy grounds may wave with thickening corn . SOWING . - RELIGIOUS RITES TO BE DULY OBSERVED . In spring upturn the glebe : and break again With summer tilth the iterated plain , It shall not mock thy hopes : be last thy ...
... morn , That so thy grounds may wave with thickening corn . SOWING . - RELIGIOUS RITES TO BE DULY OBSERVED . In spring upturn the glebe : and break again With summer tilth the iterated plain , It shall not mock thy hopes : be last thy ...
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... MORNING SIGNS OF A COLD EVENING RAIN , IN WINTER . Bleak is the morn when blows the north from high ; Oft when the dawnlight paints the starry sky , A misty cloud suspended hovers o'er Heaven's blessed earth with fertilizing store ...
... MORNING SIGNS OF A COLD EVENING RAIN , IN WINTER . Bleak is the morn when blows the north from high ; Oft when the dawnlight paints the starry sky , A misty cloud suspended hovers o'er Heaven's blessed earth with fertilizing store ...
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