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How do I use the word 'thee'?

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Its an old-fashioned word, used in place of " you "

Classic poem : How do I love thee ?

                          Let me count the ways.

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Cookie Roma
Cookie Roma commented
Aaaawwwww. That was my EXACT answer!!!
Sheldon  Cooper
Sheldon Cooper commented
1. My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From ev'ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!
2. My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills.
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
3. Let music swell the breeze
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
4. Our fathers' God, to thee,
Author of liberty,
To thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light.
Protect us by thy might,
Great God, our King!
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Ray Dart answered

An example from old Bill:

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 

Thou art more lovely and more temperate. 

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. 

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed; 

And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed; 

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, 

Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
    

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
    So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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