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Was I angry with Hayley who usd me so ill

Or can I be angry with Felphams old Mill

Or angry with Flaxman or Cromek or Stothard

Or poor Schiavonetti whom they to death botherd
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The Washer Womans Song


I washd them out & washd them in

And they told me it was a great Sin

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        More proudly on thy winding course,

            Dark Alleghany! flow;

        The noblest burden thou couldst bear

            Is on thy waters now.

 

        But calm be every turbid wave,
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        "And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters;

        they came to the pits and found no water; they returned with

        their vessels empty." -- Jeremiah XIV. 3.

 

        When the fitful fever of the...

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Water makes many Beds

For those averse to sleep —

Its awful chamber open stands —

Its Curtains blandly sweep —

Abhorrent is the Rest

In undulating Rooms

Whose Amplitude no end invades —

Whose...

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Water, is taught by thirst.

Land — by the Oceans passed.

Transport — by throe —

Peace — by its battles told —

Love, by Memorial Mold —

Birds, by the Snow.

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We can but follow to the Sun —

As oft as He go down

He leave Ourselves a Sphere behind —

'Tis mostly — following —


We go no further with the Dust

Than to the Earthen Door —

And then the Panels are...

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We Cover Thee — Sweet Face —

Not that We tire of Thee —

But that Thyself fatigue of Us —

Remember — as Thou go —

We follow Thee until

Thou notice Us — no more —

And then — reluctant — turn away
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We do not know the time we lose —

The awful moment is

And takes its fundamental place

Among the certainties —


A firm appearance still inflates

The card — the chance — the friend —

The spectre of...

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