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50 Ill fares the land , to hast'ning ills a prey , Where wealth accumulates , and men de- cay : Princes and lords may flourish , or may fade ; A breath can make them , as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry , their country's pride ...
50 Ill fares the land , to hast'ning ills a prey , Where wealth accumulates , and men de- cay : Princes and lords may flourish , or may fade ; A breath can make them , as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry , their country's pride ...
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As in strange lands a traveller walking slow , In doubt and great perplexity , A little before moon - rise hears the low Moan of an ... or one deep cry Of great wild beasts ; then thinketh , ' I have found A new land , but I die .
As in strange lands a traveller walking slow , In doubt and great perplexity , A little before moon - rise hears the low Moan of an ... or one deep cry Of great wild beasts ; then thinketh , ' I have found A new land , but I die .
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It is the land that freemen till , That sober - suited Freedom chose , The land , where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government , 10 A land of just and old renown , Where Freedom slowly ...
It is the land that freemen till , That sober - suited Freedom chose , The land , where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government , 10 A land of just and old renown , Where Freedom slowly ...
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Contents
Medieval Lyrics | 1 |
The Franklins Tale | 16 |
The wordes of the Host to the Phisicien | 28 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | An Oxford Anthology of English Poetry |
| Editors | Howard Foster Lowry, Willard Thorp |
| Contributor | Margaret Farrand Thorp |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1947 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2009 |
| Length | 1232 pages |
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