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M'Fingal - Canto II John Trumbull	Who only ask'd, in surplice clad, The simple tithe of all you had: And now, to keep all knaves in awe, Have sent their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church Emily Dickinson	Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice -- I just wear my Wings -- And instead of tolling the Bell, for Church, Our little Sexton --...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tale XV George Crabbe	Change his wide surplice for a narrow shroud, And I will place within his seat a youth, Train'd by the Graces to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Canon's Yeoman's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer	And underneath he wore a white...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Conundrum Of The Workshops Rudyard Kipling	to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice-peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg, We know that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Distracted Puritan Richard Corbet	Boldly I preach, I hate a cross, hate a surplice, Mitres, copes, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Owl And The Lark Alfred Austin	Its pleated wings adown its breast Were like a surplice folded; And, if the truth must be confessed, It threatened me and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Phoenix and the Turtle William Shakespeare	Let the priest in surplice white, That defunctive music can, Be the death-divining swan, Lest the requiem lack his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Progress Of A Divine: Satire Richard Savage	When time shall serve, for tithes, and surplice-fees; When 'scapes some portion'd girl from guardian's pow'r, He the snug licence gets for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Theory And Practice Ella Wheeler Wilcox	And then he doffs his surplice and his gown, And calls for wine to wash his sorrow...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
We build your world within our eyes. Heather Lydia Thornhill	Every mirrored surface Every thing of surplice I build your world within my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Where I have lost, I softer tread Emily Dickinson	A Bonnet black—A dusk surplice— A little tremor in my voice Like...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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