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Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
Approximate author period: c. 1743 AD · early modern
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- Thomas Gray
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- Approximate author period: c. 1743 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 12.
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