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The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose

Now First Collected with a Prefatory Memoir by his Nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere
Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)

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VOL I.
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VOL II
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FRAGMENTS FROM THEOGNIS.
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TRANSLATIONS FROM “THE POEM OF THE CID.”
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MISCELLANEOUS TRANSLATIONS.
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TRANSLATIONS OF SOME OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID.
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JUDGES.
  
ECCLESIASTES.

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Enjoy your time, my soul! another race
Will shortly fill the world, and take your place,
With their own hopes and fears, sorrow and mirth:
I shall be dust the while, and crumbled earth.
But think not of it! Drink the racy wine
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Of rich Taygetus, pressed from the vine
Which Theotimus in the sunny glen,
(Old Theotimus, lov'd by Gods and men)
Planted, and water'd from a plenteous source,
Teaching the wayward stream a better course—
Drink it, and cheer your heart, and banish care—
A load of wine will lighten our despair.
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