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What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
All Nature's read more
At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
All Nature's children feel the matin spring
Of life reviving, with reviving day.
Laughter holding both his sides.
Laughter holding both his sides.
A Horse made, and a man to make.
A Horse made, and a man to make.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial
halter.
He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial
halter.
Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.
Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it
will turn sour.
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it
will turn sour.
