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Where shall affliction from itself retire? - George Crabbe "The Library"

We fly to silent scenes in vain - George Crabbe "The Library"

Veils in clouds the sun's meridian beam - George Crabbe "The Library"

When the soul is labouring in despair - George Crabbe "The Library"

Dreads the tempest, but invokes the breeze - George Crabbe "The Library"

The ghost of every former danger - George Crabbe "The Library"

And laugh at all the little strife of time - George Crabbe "The Library"

To lead the willing mind through History's mazes - George Crabbe "The Library"

Lost and bewilder'd in the vast desire - George Crabbe "The Library"

A painful candidate for lasting fame - George Crabbe "The Library"

From men of study, and from men of straw - George Crabbe "The Library"

Awaked to war the long-contending foes - George Crabbe "The Library"

Too well they act the prophet's fatal part - George Crabbe "The Library"

Here the dormant fury rests unsought - George Crabbe "The Library"

Zeal sleeps soundly by the foes she fought - George Crabbe "The Library"

Few sparks of genius, and no spark of grace - George Crabbe "The Library"

Rejecting all that lies beyond her view - George Crabbe "The Library"

Advancing still in Nature's maze - George Crabbe "The Library"

Which transient virtue seeks to cure in vain - George Crabbe "The Library"

Who knows no good unmix'd and pure - George Crabbe "The Library"

Spreads desolations round a guilty land - George Crabbe "The Library"

Atone for each imposter's wild mistakes - George Crabbe "The Library"

Buried in dust and lost in silence, dwell - George Crabbe "The Library"

And spread their guardian terrors round the land - George Crabbe "The Library"

And justice vainly each expedient tries - George Crabbe "The Library"

Time conceals the objects from our view - George Crabbe "The Library"

How caution watches at the lips of fraud - George Crabbe "The Library"

Most lavish and most coy - George Crabbe "Parish Register: Part I. Baptisms"

A meat for every mind - George Crabbe "Parish Register: Part I. Baptisms"

By wizard-power upheld - George Crabbe "Parish Register: Part I. Baptisms"

In tinsel trappings of poetic pride - George Crabbe "The Village"

Broken from the withering tree - George Crabbe "The Village"

Mends the broken hedge with icy thorn - George Crabbe "The Village"

Without the sorrows of a slow decay - George Crabbe "The Village"

The clamours of the crowd below - George Crabbe "The Village"

Plucks the scrap from pride - George Crabbe "The Village"

With zeal to combat fears - George Crabbe "The Village"

As other Nymphs are won - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

Joys that soon decay - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

That break the arm of Toil - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

With anger or with shame repair - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

In all the kindred vices trace - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

In varied fortune past - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

Our lofty hopes and longing eyes - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

The tardy zeal of future days - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"


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