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Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns

Robert Burns

CEASE, ye prudes, your envious railing,
Lovely Burns has charms—confess:
True it is, she had one failing,
Had a woman ever less?




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    6. Bethlehem -
    by Herman Melville
    Over uplands now toward eve they pass By higher uplands tinged with grass. Lower it crept as they went on — Grew in advance, and rugged the ground; Yea, seemed before these pilgrims thrown