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... sound beside , except when flew Aloft the lapwing , or the gray curlew , Who with wild notes my fancied power defied , And mock'd the dreams of solitary pride . * I loved to stop at every creek and bay Made by the river in its winding ...
... sound beside , except when flew Aloft the lapwing , or the gray curlew , Who with wild notes my fancied power defied , And mock'd the dreams of solitary pride . * I loved to stop at every creek and bay Made by the river in its winding ...
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... sound the note which has since become the keynote of the poetry of the nineteenth century , and which has found expression in the perfected cadence of a later singer : " " Tis first the true and then the beautiful , not first the ...
... sound the note which has since become the keynote of the poetry of the nineteenth century , and which has found expression in the perfected cadence of a later singer : " " Tis first the true and then the beautiful , not first the ...
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... sound ; The busy priest , detain'd by weightier care , Defers his duty till the day of prayer ; And waiting long , the crowd retire distrest , To think a poor man's bones should lie unblest . LATER RENDERINGS . I Urge the weak . 2 And ...
... sound ; The busy priest , detain'd by weightier care , Defers his duty till the day of prayer ; And waiting long , the crowd retire distrest , To think a poor man's bones should lie unblest . LATER RENDERINGS . I Urge the weak . 2 And ...
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... sounds , But vainly strove a word to say ; So , pointing to his bleeding wounds , The threat'ning spectre stalk'd away . I brought a lovely daughter forth , His father's child , in Aaron's bed ; He took her from me in his wrath ...
... sounds , But vainly strove a word to say ; So , pointing to his bleeding wounds , The threat'ning spectre stalk'd away . I brought a lovely daughter forth , His father's child , in Aaron's bed ; He took her from me in his wrath ...
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... sounds shrill ; and , hark ! The free wind blows - we've left the town- A wide sepulchral ground I mark , And on a tombstone ... sound , ' Arise , ye dead , and come away ! " Alas ! they stay not for that call ; Spare SIR EUSTACE GREY 51.
... sounds shrill ; and , hark ! The free wind blows - we've left the town- A wide sepulchral ground I mark , And on a tombstone ... sound , ' Arise , ye dead , and come away ! " Alas ! they stay not for that call ; Spare SIR EUSTACE GREY 51.
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