British Monumental Inscriptions: Gathered Occasionally, from Divers Churchyards, Band 1

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E. Roffe, 1859
 

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Seite 45 - AT anchor laid, remote from home, Toiling, I cry, " Sweet Spirit, come ; Celestial Breeze, no longer stay, But swell my sails, and speed my way. 2 " Fain would I mount, fain would I glow, And loose my cable from below ; But I can only spread my sail ; Thou, thou must breathe the auspicious gale.
Seite 26 - Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and...
Seite 44 - Reader! If Excellence in Music's Art, By turns to sadden, or to cheer the Heart: Whether by playful Catch, by serious Glee, Or the more Solemn Canon's Harmony: If Genius such as that can raise a sigh, Or draw the trickling tribute from thine Eye ; Pause o'er this spot, which now contains the Clay Of him in whom those Talents lately lay.
Seite 13 - The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish while they sleep in dust.
Seite 30 - Go, female sweetness joined with manly sense; Go, winning wit, that never gave offence; Go, soft humanity, that blest the poor; Go, saint-eyed patience, from affliction's door Go, modesty that never wore a frown; Go, virtue, and receive thy heavenly crown.
Seite 46 - It enters deep within the veil, It fastens on a land unknown, And moors me to my Father's throne ! TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.
Seite 50 - Now a cold tenant does he lie Of this dark cell, all hush'd his song: While Friendship bends with streaming eye, As by his grave she wends along; On his cold clay lets fall a holy tear, And cries, "Though mute, there is a poet here.

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