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... swain , the white - winged plover wheels Her sounding flight , and then directly on In long excursion skims the level lawn , To tempt him from her nest . The wild duck hence , O'er the rough moss , and o'er the trackless waste The heath ...
... swain , the white - winged plover wheels Her sounding flight , and then directly on In long excursion skims the level lawn , To tempt him from her nest . The wild duck hence , O'er the rough moss , and o'er the trackless waste The heath ...
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... swain , With spotted wings like peacock's train , And , laughing , lope to a tree ; His gilden quiver at his back , And silver bow which was but slack , Which lightly he bent at me : That seeing , I levelled again , And shot at ...
... swain , With spotted wings like peacock's train , And , laughing , lope to a tree ; His gilden quiver at his back , And silver bow which was but slack , Which lightly he bent at me : That seeing , I levelled again , And shot at ...
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... swain . Where were ye , nymphs ! when Daphnis pined away , Where through his Tempé Peneus loved to stray , Or Pindus lifts himself ? Ye were not here- Where broad Anapus flows or Acis clear , Or where tall Etna looks out on the main ...
... swain . Where were ye , nymphs ! when Daphnis pined away , Where through his Tempé Peneus loved to stray , Or Pindus lifts himself ? Ye were not here- Where broad Anapus flows or Acis clear , Or where tall Etna looks out on the main ...
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... swain Who turns the fallow soil beside the main ; Or who , remote from billowy ocean's gales , Tills the rich glebe of inland - winding vales . Plough naked still , and naked sow the soil , And naked reap ; if kindly to thy toil Thou ...
... swain Who turns the fallow soil beside the main ; Or who , remote from billowy ocean's gales , Tills the rich glebe of inland - winding vales . Plough naked still , and naked sow the soil , And naked reap ; if kindly to thy toil Thou ...
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... swain , From shady booths , from morning sleep refrain . Now , in the fervor of the harvest - day , When the strong sun dissolves the frame away , Now haste afield ; now bind thy sheafy corn , And earn thy food by rising with the morn ...
... swain , From shady booths , from morning sleep refrain . Now , in the fervor of the harvest - day , When the strong sun dissolves the frame away , Now haste afield ; now bind thy sheafy corn , And earn thy food by rising with the morn ...
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