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Page 19
... , the sun from the blue sky Looks in , and sheds a blessing on the scene . Scarce less the cleft - born wild - flower seems to enjoy Existence , than the winged plunderer That sucks its sweets COMMON - PLACE BOOK OF POETRY . 19 Bryant.
... , the sun from the blue sky Looks in , and sheds a blessing on the scene . Scarce less the cleft - born wild - flower seems to enjoy Existence , than the winged plunderer That sucks its sweets COMMON - PLACE BOOK OF POETRY . 19 Bryant.
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... blue eyes Were dim and bloodshot , and he could not know Why God denied him water in the wild . She sat a little longer , and he grew Ghastly and faint , as if he would have died . It was too much for her . She lifted him , And bore him ...
... blue eyes Were dim and bloodshot , and he could not know Why God denied him water in the wild . She sat a little longer , and he grew Ghastly and faint , as if he would have died . It was too much for her . She lifted him , And bore him ...
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... blue light . Heaven keep the wits of him who rides The spectre - horse to - night ! His path is shining like a swift ship's wake ; He gleams before Lee's door like day's gray break . The revel now is high within : It breaks upon the ...
... blue light . Heaven keep the wits of him who rides The spectre - horse to - night ! His path is shining like a swift ship's wake ; He gleams before Lee's door like day's gray break . The revel now is high within : It breaks upon the ...
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... blue curtain lie His stores of hail and sleet : Thence the consuming lightnings break ; There the strong hurricanes awake . Yet art thou prodigal of smiles- Smiles sweeter than thy frowns are stern : Earth sends , from all her thousand ...
... blue curtain lie His stores of hail and sleet : Thence the consuming lightnings break ; There the strong hurricanes awake . Yet art thou prodigal of smiles- Smiles sweeter than thy frowns are stern : Earth sends , from all her thousand ...
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... blue pillars rise : - I only know how fair they stand About my own beloved land . And they are fair : a charm is theirs , That earth - the proud , green earth - has not , With all the hues , and forms , and airs , That haunt her ...
... blue pillars rise : - I only know how fair they stand About my own beloved land . And they are fair : a charm is theirs , That earth - the proud , green earth - has not , With all the hues , and forms , and airs , That haunt her ...
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