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" Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee ; And thy dark sin — oh ! I could drink the cup If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My lost boy, Absalom... "
Sanders' Union Fourth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles ... - Page 41
by Charles Walton Sanders - 1867 - 408 pages
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Sketches

Nathaniel Parker Willis - American poetry - 1827 - 112 pages
...token! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom! ' And now farewell! 't is hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee. And thy dark sin—oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee— May God have called...
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The Common School Manual: A Regular and Connected Course of Elementary ...

Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...tresses to the soft winds flung; But thou no more with thy sweet voice shall come To meet me, Absalom! 5. And now farewell! 'tis hard to give thee up, With...death so like a gentle slumber on thee, And thy dark sin—oh! I would drink the cup, If from this wo, its bitterness had spar'd thee;— May God have call'd...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom! Yearn for thine ear to drink its last deep token! " And now, farewell! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With...so like a gentle slumber on thee :— And thy dark sin!—Oh! I could drink the cup, If from this wo its bitterness had won thee. May God have called...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...drink its last deep token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! " And now, farewell ! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With...sin ! — Oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this wo its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My erring Absalom...
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Kettell, Samuel: Specimens of American Poetry...

1829 - 436 pages
...to catch its dying token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! ' And now farewell ! 'tis hard to give thee up, With...dark sin — oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this wo its bitterness had won thee — May God have call'd thee like a wanderer home, My erring Absalom...
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The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from ...

Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! ' And now, farewell ! 'T is hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle...sin ! — Oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this wo its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My erring Absalom...
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The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from ...

Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...token! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom! ' And now, farewell! 'T is hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle...dark sin! — Oh! I could drink the cup, If from this wo its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My erring Absalom!...
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The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from ...

Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...token! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom! 'And now, farewell! 'T is hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee:— And thy dark sin!—Oh! I could drink the cup, If from this wo its bitterness had won thee. May God have called...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...gentle slumber on thee : — And thy dark sin ! — Oh ! I could drink the cup, '' If from this wo its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, hone, My erring Absalom !" He covered up his face, and bowed himself A moment on his child : then,...
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The English Orator: a Selection of Pieces for Reading & Recitation

James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...to drink its last deep token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom! And now farewell ! — 'tis hard to give thee up,...dark sin! — Oh, I could drink the cup, If from this wo its bitterness had won thee ! — May God have call'd thee like a wanderer home, My erring Absalom...
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