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...filial guardian were blessed for three years longer in their pious aim, — " T' explore the wish — explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Then the full of days was summoned to depart, and I — yes — / remember well the last scene of her...

...of declining age; With lenient arts extend a mother's hreath, Make languor smile and smooth the hed of death: Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky!' never practised with that singleness of devotion which can spring only from having the ohject of its...

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...know less joy than 1. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend,...

...himself with the following — which may well be compared with any that filial piety ever dictated : — Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep at least one parent from the sky.— Pope. PIC-NIC. (Pique-nique — Diet. de Vacademie.) A social...

...ourselves, When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind To suffer with the body. Me, let the teader office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing...age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make langour smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a...

...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless...

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