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...like that brighter luminary, of which Lucifer is but the herald ? So sinks the day-star in the ocean's bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and, with new-spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. What, but the ever living power of literature...

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...hold ; Look homeward, angel, now, and melt with ruth : And, oh ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon...his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky : So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,...

...shepherds, weep no more ; For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk tho' he be beneath the watery floor : So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon...his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky : So Lycidas sunk low, is mounted high."...

...that brighter luminary, of which Lucifer is but the herald ? " So sinks the Day-star in the ocean's bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and, with new-spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky." What, but the ever living power of literature...

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