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... in vain exerting ev'ry art , Performs a leader's and a warrior's part : But now no more his keen reproach controuls The coward terrors that unman their souls : No sense of glory fires the vet'ran's breast , With 16 THE CONQUEST OF QUEBEC .
... in vain exerting ev'ry art , Performs a leader's and a warrior's part : But now no more his keen reproach controuls The coward terrors that unman their souls : No sense of glory fires the vet'ran's breast , With 16 THE CONQUEST OF QUEBEC .
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... soul away . To swifter flight the Gallic legions yield , And trembling quit the long contested field ; Part hasten to the stream whose waves contain Th ' extensive limits of the fatal plain ; Part to the bulwarks , from whose lofty ...
... soul away . To swifter flight the Gallic legions yield , And trembling quit the long contested field ; Part hasten to the stream whose waves contain Th ' extensive limits of the fatal plain ; Part to the bulwarks , from whose lofty ...
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... IN THE YEAR MDCCLXXI . Εἷς οἰωνὸς ἄριτος , ἀμύνεσθαι περὶ πάτρης . Ηom . Who fights his Country's battle , Does in his bosom feel a golden omen Of victory . THE LOVE OF OUR COUNTRY . YE souls illustrious , B 3 The Love of our Country.
... IN THE YEAR MDCCLXXI . Εἷς οἰωνὸς ἄριτος , ἀμύνεσθαι περὶ πάτρης . Ηom . Who fights his Country's battle , Does in his bosom feel a golden omen Of victory . THE LOVE OF OUR COUNTRY . YE souls illustrious , B 3 The Love of our Country.
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Oxford univ, prize poems. THE LOVE OF OUR COUNTRY . YE souls illustrious , who in days of yore With peerless might the British target bore ; Who , clad in wolf - skin , from the scythed car Frown'd on the iron brow of mailed war ; Who ...
Oxford univ, prize poems. THE LOVE OF OUR COUNTRY . YE souls illustrious , who in days of yore With peerless might the British target bore ; Who , clad in wolf - skin , from the scythed car Frown'd on the iron brow of mailed war ; Who ...
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... soul , As is that holy voice , that cancels all These ties , that bids him for his country fall . At this high summons , with undaunted zeal He bares his breast , invites th ' impending steel , Smiles at the hand that deals the fatal ...
... soul , As is that holy voice , that cancels all These ties , that bids him for his country fall . At this high summons , with undaunted zeal He bares his breast , invites th ' impending steel , Smiles at the hand that deals the fatal ...
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Página 75 - And unrestrained the generous vintage flows: Nor less your sons to manliest deeds aspire, And Asia's mountains glow with Spartan fire. So when, deep sinking in the rosy main, The western sun forsakes the Syrian plain, His watery rays refracted lustre shed. And pour their latest light on Carmel's head. Yet shines your praise, amid surrounding gloom. As the lone lamp that trembles in the tomb; For few the souls that spurn a tyrant's chain, And small the bounds of freedom's scanty reign. As the poor...
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Página 80 - Israel's fate, And such the glories of their infant state. — Triumphant race ! and did your power decay ? Fail'd the bright promise of your early day ? No : — by that sword, which, red with heathen gore, A giant spoil, the stripling champion bore...
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