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... spreads and towers Slow as Columbia's aloe , proudly rare , That , ' mid gay thousands , with the suns and showers Of half a century , grows alone before it flowers . Has immortality of name been given To them that idly worship hills ...
... spreads and towers Slow as Columbia's aloe , proudly rare , That , ' mid gay thousands , with the suns and showers Of half a century , grows alone before it flowers . Has immortality of name been given To them that idly worship hills ...
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... spreads her shades around , And darkness fills the arch of heaven ; When not a murmur , not a sound , To Fancy's sportive ear is given ; * The remains and a biographical sketch of this remarkable girl were published last year by Mr ...
... spreads her shades around , And darkness fills the arch of heaven ; When not a murmur , not a sound , To Fancy's sportive ear is given ; * The remains and a biographical sketch of this remarkable girl were published last year by Mr ...
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... spread A sound to appal the living , stir the dead . The spirit - steed sent up the neigh . It seemed the living trump of hell , Sounding to call the damned away , To join the host that fell . It rang along the vaulted sky : the shore ...
... spread A sound to appal the living , stir the dead . The spirit - steed sent up the neigh . It seemed the living trump of hell , Sounding to call the damned away , To join the host that fell . It rang along the vaulted sky : the shore ...
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... spreads o'er wood and field A flood of verdure . Clothed , in one short week , Is naked nature in her full attire . On the first morn , light as an open plain Is all the woodland , filled with sunbeams , poured Through the bare tops ...
... spreads o'er wood and field A flood of verdure . Clothed , in one short week , Is naked nature in her full attire . On the first morn , light as an open plain Is all the woodland , filled with sunbeams , poured Through the bare tops ...
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... spread his wings ; in one dread swell Of triumph mingling as they mounted , trumpets , And harps , and golden lyres , and timbrels sweet , And many a strange and deep - toned instrument Of heavenly minstrelsy unknown on earth , And ...
... spread his wings ; in one dread swell Of triumph mingling as they mounted , trumpets , And harps , and golden lyres , and timbrels sweet , And many a strange and deep - toned instrument Of heavenly minstrelsy unknown on earth , And ...
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