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Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,
And come like the benediction
That follows after prayer.

Then read from the treasured volume

The poem of thy choice,

And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.

And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

THE END

Index of First Lines

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

Abide with me! fast falls the even-tide

A boding silence reigns

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Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase)

Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting

A child of Nations, giant-limbed.

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever.

A fire-mist and a planet. .

Ah, did you once see Shelley plain

Ah! not because our Soldier died before his field was won

Ah, there be souls none understand.

A jolly fat friar loved liquor good store

A life on the ocean wave

A light is out in Italy

A little bird once met another bird

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A little elbow leans upon your knee

All day the stormy wind has blown

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All heaven and earth are still - though not in sleep

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All the world over I wonder, in lands that I never have trod 367

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And didst thou love the race that loved not thee

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And is there care in heaven? And is there love.

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And on her lover's arm she leant

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And there they sat, a-popping corn

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"And where now, Bayard, will thy footsteps tend"
Around this lovely valley rise

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"A sail! a sail! Oh, whence away

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As aw hurried throo th' toan to mi wark.

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Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea

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Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones

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Banner of England! not for a season, O banner of Britain,

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Bird of the wilderness

Between the dark and the daylight

Beyond these chilling winds and gloomy skies

Beyond the smiling and the weeping

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Blessings on thee, little man

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Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Break, break, break

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Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Bright flag at yonder tapering mast
"Busk ye, busk ye, my bonnie, bonnie bride
But heard are the voices.

"But see! look up!-on Flodden bent.
But slow that tide of common thought

But where to find that happiest spot below
But who the melodies of morn can tell
By the flow of the inland river

By the rude bridge that arched the flood
By the waters of Life we sat together

Clang, clang! the massive anvils ring

Cleon hath a million acres, ne'er a one have I

Clime of the unforgotten brave
Close his eyes, his work is done.

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