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Fear God! Says Perceval: and When You Hear
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
" Fear God! " says Perceval: and when you hear
Tones so lugubrious, you perforce must fear;
If in such awful accents he should say,
" Fear lovely Innocence! " you'd run away.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Fear God! Says Perceval: and When You Hear.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/500/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Fear God! Says Perceval: and When You Hear.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/500/.
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