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To perhaps the same feeling most ladies are prone,
The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses J. C. Manning
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And hear'st the wail of captives crushed and prone,
The Poems of William Watson William Watson 1896
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One stirred with stirring sea-weeds: one lay prone,
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 Various 1836
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His arms clung to his ribs, his legs intwining Each other, till fupplanted down he fell A monftrous ferpent on his belly prone,
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His arms clung to his ribs, his legs intwining Each other, till fupplanted down he fell A monftrous ferpent on his belly prone,
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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