When Sol in shades of night was lost,
And all was fast asleep,
In glided Townley's murder'd ghost,
And stood at William's feet.
Infernal wretch, away! he cried,
And view the mangled shade,
Who on...
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As if some little Arctic flower, |
The roving breezes come and go, the reed beds sweep pand sway, |
Tried always and Condemned by thee |
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Of all the sickly forms of verse, |
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Triumph — may be of several kinds — |
How many times these low feet staggered, |
Trudging to Eden, looking backward, |