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... youth and the favourites he loved in days when he had much enthusiasm but little reading . ' A deeper import Lurks in the legend told my infant years Than lies upon that truth we live to learn . ' Few of my contemporaries can erase - or ...
... youth and the favourites he loved in days when he had much enthusiasm but little reading . ' A deeper import Lurks in the legend told my infant years Than lies upon that truth we live to learn . ' Few of my contemporaries can erase - or ...
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... youth , But now am old , as you see : Love likes not the falling fruit , Nor the withered tree . Know that Love is a careless child , And forgets promise past : He is blind , he is deaf when he list , And in faith never fast . His ...
... youth , But now am old , as you see : Love likes not the falling fruit , Nor the withered tree . Know that Love is a careless child , And forgets promise past : He is blind , he is deaf when he list , And in faith never fast . His ...
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... My babe and I together will live ; He'll comfort me when cares do grieve . My babe and I right soft will lie , And ne'er respect man's crueltye- Balow , la - low ! 29 . Farewell , farewell , the falsest youth That 54 ANONYMOUS.
... My babe and I together will live ; He'll comfort me when cares do grieve . My babe and I right soft will lie , And ne'er respect man's crueltye- Balow , la - low ! 29 . Farewell , farewell , the falsest youth That 54 ANONYMOUS.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch. 29 . Farewell , farewell , the falsest youth That ever kist a woman's mouth ! I wish all maids be warn'd by me Never to trust man's curtesye ; For if we do but chance to bow , They'll use us then they care not how ...
Arthur Quiller-Couch. 29 . Farewell , farewell , the falsest youth That ever kist a woman's mouth ! I wish all maids be warn'd by me Never to trust man's curtesye ; For if we do but chance to bow , They'll use us then they care not how ...
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... the snare , Learn at me to beware ; It is ane pain , and double trane Of endless woe and care ; For to refrain that danger plain , Flee always from the snare . 45 . In Youth is Pleasure Na harbour grene aslepe 71 ALEXANDER SCOTT.
... the snare , Learn at me to beware ; It is ane pain , and double trane Of endless woe and care ; For to refrain that danger plain , Flee always from the snare . 45 . In Youth is Pleasure Na harbour grene aslepe 71 ALEXANDER SCOTT.
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