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Scottish Metrical Psalms
1650
1650
1
The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want.
He makes me down to lie
In pastures green: he leadeth me
the quiet waters by.
My head thou dost with oil anoint,
and my cup overflows.
I to the hills will lift mine eyes
from whence doth come mine aid.
The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want.
He makes me down to lie
In pastures green: he leadeth me
the quiet waters by.
Psalm 23, v. 1.
My head thou dost with oil anoint,
and my cup overflows.
Psalm 23, v. 1.
I to the hills will lift mine eyes
from whence doth come mine aid.
Psalm 121, v. 1.
Sears, Edmund Hamilton
1810–76
1810–76
1
It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From Angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold.
It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From Angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold.
The Christian Register
(1850) "That Glorious Song of Old"
Sedgwick, John
d. 1864
d. 1864
1
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
comment of a Union general, immediately prior to being killed by enemy fire at the battle of Spotsylvania in the American Civil War
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
comment of a Union general, immediately prior to being killed by enemy fire at the battle of Spotsylvania in the American Civil War
Robert Denney
The Civil War Years
(1992)
Sedley, Charles
c.
1639–1701
c.
1639–1701
1
Phyllis, without frown or smile,
Sat and knotted all the while.
Phyllis, without frown or smile,
Sat and knotted all the while.
"Phyllis Knotting" (1694)
Seeger, Alan
1888–1916
1888–1916
1
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade.
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade.
"I Have a Rendezvous with Death" (1916)
Seeley, John
1834–95
1834–95
1
We [the English] seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
We [the English] seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
The Expansion of England
(1883) Lecture 1
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