bequeath
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O minstrel galleons of Carib fire, Bequeath us to no earthly shore until Is answered in the vortex of our grave The seal's wide spindrift gaze toward paradise.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Moreover, why should former lives Bequeath their weight of woe, If with it comes no memory To guide us, as we go?
From Poems by Stoddard, John L. (John Lawson)
Leave thy dagger with me; Bequeath me something—Not one kiss at parting!
From Venice Preserved A Tragedy in Five Acts by Boucicault, Dion
Bequeath him the same legacy, which I bequeath you.
From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendour of its prime; And leave, if naught so bright may live, All earth can take or Heaven can give.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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