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Some in our house were fighting for their lives , others wallowing in their blood , the House on fire over our heads , and the bloody Heathen ready to knock us on the head , if we stirred out : Now might we hear Mothers & Children ...
Some in our house were fighting for their lives , others wallowing in their blood , the House on fire over our heads , and the bloody Heathen ready to knock us on the head , if we stirred out : Now might we hear Mothers & Children ...
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5 Did ever But now my Heart is made thy Censar trim , Full of thy golden Altars fire , To offer up Sweet Incense in Unto thyselfe intire : I finde my tinder scarce thy sparks can feel That drop out from thy Holy flint and Steel .
5 Did ever But now my Heart is made thy Censar trim , Full of thy golden Altars fire , To offer up Sweet Incense in Unto thyselfe intire : I finde my tinder scarce thy sparks can feel That drop out from thy Holy flint and Steel .
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15 Hence doubts out bud for feare thy fire in mee ' S a mocking Ignis Fatuus Or lest thine Altars fire out bee , Its hid in ashes thus . Yet when the bellows of thy Spirit blow Away mine ashes , then thy fire doth glow .
15 Hence doubts out bud for feare thy fire in mee ' S a mocking Ignis Fatuus Or lest thine Altars fire out bee , Its hid in ashes thus . Yet when the bellows of thy Spirit blow Away mine ashes , then thy fire doth glow .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Colonial and Federalist American Writing The Odyssey surveys of American writing |
| Author | George F. Horner |
| Publisher | Odyssey Press, 1966 |
| Length | 946 pages |
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