Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . Mi M rcr^ 0 o-T M ^\j. Thou never ploughst the oceans foam,To seek and bring rough pepper home ;Nor to the Eastern Ind dost rove,To bring from thence the scorched clove ;Nor, with the loss of thy loved rest,Bringst home the ingot from the ; thy ambitions master-pieceFlies no thought higher than a fleece ;Or how to pay thy hinds, and clearAll scores, and so to end the year ;But walkst about thine own dear envying others larger bounds ;For w

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Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . Mi M rcr^ 0 o-T M ^\j. Thou never ploughst the oceans foam,To seek and bring rough pepper home ;Nor to the Eastern Ind dost rove,To bring from thence the scorched clove ;Nor, with the loss of thy loved rest,Bringst home the ingot from the ; thy ambitions master-pieceFlies no thought higher than a fleece ;Or how to pay thy hinds, and clearAll scores, and so to end the year ;But walkst about thine own dear envying others larger bounds ;For well thou knowst tis not the extentOf land makes life, but sweet now the cock, the ploughmans for the lily-wristed morn,Then to thy cornfields thou dost , though well soiled, yet thou dost knowThat the best compost for the landsIs the wise masters feet and , at the plough, thou findst thy a hind whistling there to them ;And cheerst them up by singing howThe kingdoms portion is the done, then to th enamelled meadsThou gost, and as thy foot there treads,Thou seest a present god-like powerImpr

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