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Monthly Archives: July 2007

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A Good Night
by Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
Close now thine eyes and rest secure;
Thy soul is safe enough, thy body sure;
He that loves thee, He that keeps
And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.
The smiling conscience in a sleeping breast
Has only peace, has only rest;
The music and the mirth [...]

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Tauti

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Chorus from

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The Defense of Fort McHenry
by Francis Scott Key (1777-1843)
O say, can you see, by the dawn

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It Is Not Beauty I Demand
by George Darley (1795-1846)
It is not Beauty I demand,
A crystal brow, the moon

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To Philaster
by Sarah Fyge (1670-1723)
Go perjur

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Canada
by Charles G.D. Roberts (1860-1943)
Because today is Canada Day
O Child of Nations, giant-limbed,
Who stand