aslope

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"An Oblique Sphere hath the Axis of the World neither Direct nor Parallel to the Horizon, but lies aslope from it."

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Summer has come, healthy and free, Whence the brown wood is aslope; The slender nimble deer leap, And the path of seals is smooth.

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The old tiara keeps itself aslope Upon his steady brows which, all the same, Bend mildly to permit the people’s hope?

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All broad and winding and aslope, All tempting with perfidious hope, All ending in despair.

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Now, from the western mountain’s brow, Compassed with clouds of various glow, The sun a broader orb displays, And shoots aslope his ruddy rays.

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