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• On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.

  Thomas Campbell

  Happiness, Dog, Play

  'The Harper' (1799)

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• But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.

  Thomas Campbell

  Angel, Men, Giving

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.81

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• Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!

  Thomas Campbell

  Years, Sea, Battle

  Thomas Campbell (1854). “The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand”, p.93

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• Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day, spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay.

  Thomas Campbell

  Brother, Men, Clay

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.80

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• Without the smile from partial beauty won,
  O what were man? - a world without a sun.

  Thomas Campbell

  Relationship, Men, World

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.72

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• For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

  Thomas Campbell

  Smile, Tears, Her Smile

  Thomas Campbell (1804). “The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems and The Pleasures of Memory”, p.10

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