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... tree , An ' o ' my sister Meassry The machrel of the sea . ' And every Saterday at noon The machrel comes to me , An ' she takes my laily head An ' lays it on her knee , An ' keames it weth a silver kemm , An ' washes it in the sea ...
... tree , An ' o ' my sister Meassry The machrel of the sea . ' And every Saterday at noon The machrel comes to me , An ' she takes my laily head An ' lays it on her knee , An ' keames it weth a silver kemm , An ' washes it in the sea ...
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... tree , from hence how far ? For many are the trees of God that grow In Paradise , and various , yet unknown To us , in such abundance lies our choice , As leaves a greater store of fruit untouched , Still hanging incorruptible , till ...
... tree , from hence how far ? For many are the trees of God that grow In Paradise , and various , yet unknown To us , in such abundance lies our choice , As leaves a greater store of fruit untouched , Still hanging incorruptible , till ...
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... tree Of prohibition , root of all our woe : Which when she saw , thus to her guide she spake . ' Serpent , we might have spared our coming hither , Fruitless to me , though fruit be here to excess , The credit of whose virtue rests with ...
... tree Of prohibition , root of all our woe : Which when she saw , thus to her guide she spake . ' Serpent , we might have spared our coming hither , Fruitless to me , though fruit be here to excess , The credit of whose virtue rests with ...
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