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When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.
Approximate author period: c. 1597 AD · renaissance
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- Michael Drayton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1597 AD · renaissance
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Ideas. An Allusion to the Eaglets. lxi.
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