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... rich sky , They faint on field , on hill , on river ; Our echoes roll from soul to soul , And grow forever and forever . Blow , bugle , blow ; set the wild echoes flying , And answer , echoes , answer dying , dying , dying . Tennyson ...
... rich sky , They faint on field , on hill , on river ; Our echoes roll from soul to soul , And grow forever and forever . Blow , bugle , blow ; set the wild echoes flying , And answer , echoes , answer dying , dying , dying . Tennyson ...
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... Rich at as easy rate As the needle's eye takes a camel in ! The Mayor sent East , West , North and South To offer the Piper by word of mouth , Wherever it was men's lot to find him , Silver and gold to his heart's content , If he'd only ...
... Rich at as easy rate As the needle's eye takes a camel in ! The Mayor sent East , West , North and South To offer the Piper by word of mouth , Wherever it was men's lot to find him , Silver and gold to his heart's content , If he'd only ...
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... voice caught up the song , Until its tender passion Rose like an anthem , rich and strong , ― Their battle - eve confession . Beyond the darkening ocean burned The bloody sunset's embers , 146 EXERCISES IN ELOCUTION . The Song of the Camp.
... voice caught up the song , Until its tender passion Rose like an anthem , rich and strong , ― Their battle - eve confession . Beyond the darkening ocean burned The bloody sunset's embers , 146 EXERCISES IN ELOCUTION . The Song of the Camp.
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... rich with corn , Clear in the cool September morn , The clustered spires of Frederick stand , Green - walled by the hills of Maryland . Round about them orchards sweep , Apple and peach - trees fruited deep , Fair as EXERCISES IN ...
... rich with corn , Clear in the cool September morn , The clustered spires of Frederick stand , Green - walled by the hills of Maryland . Round about them orchards sweep , Apple and peach - trees fruited deep , Fair as EXERCISES IN ...
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... rich in autumn's mellow prime , The clustered apples burnt like flame , The soft - cheeked peaches blushed and fell , The ivory chestnut burst its shell , The grape hung purpling in the grange , And time wrought just as rich a change In ...
... rich in autumn's mellow prime , The clustered apples burnt like flame , The soft - cheeked peaches blushed and fell , The ivory chestnut burst its shell , The grape hung purpling in the grange , And time wrought just as rich a change In ...
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angels answer arms bear beautiful bells better bless born breath child close cloud cold comes cried dark dead dear death deep died door dream drum earth eyes face fair fall father fear feel feet fell flowers followed friends give gone grave hand happy head hear heard heart Heaven hold hour Italy keep Lady land leave light live look Lord mind morning mother nature never night o'er once passed play poor rest Rich river rose round seemed Senator side sing sleep smile song soul sound speak stand stood strange sure sweet tears tell thee There's thing thou thought Toll turned voice wave wife wind young
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Page 3 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 410 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 27 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo. there was a great earthquake ; and the sun became black as sackcloth . of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together ; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Page 304 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : " Strike till the last armed foe expires ! Strike for your altars and your fires ! Strike for the green graves of your sires, God and your native land...
Page 3 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 125 - T' make that place uz strong uz the rest." So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke,— That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Page 301 - Each public officer who takes an oath to support the constitution, swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 231 - This water His blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need ; Not what we give, but what we share, — For the gift without the giver is bare ; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, — Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 68 - O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 41 - But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol, Whose sweet entrancing voice he loved the best...