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...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of...

...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend, may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no unpleasing melancholy mine. Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed...

...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic hliss he thine ! Be no unpleasing envy cursed, And the heat reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's hreath, Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of...

...— their " pensive and pathetic sweetness," — appertained of right to the sex which he reviled. " Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of...

...mind familiar with the elegant and the tender, but a heart "tremblingly alive" with sensibility. " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age. With lenient acts extend a mother's breath. Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of...

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