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And where is the bosom - friend , dearer than all ? Ah ! my sad soul , long abandoned by pleasure ! Why did it dote on a fast - fading treasure ? Tears , like the rain - drops , may fall without measure , But rapture and beauty they can ...
And where is the bosom - friend , dearer than all ? Ah ! my sad soul , long abandoned by pleasure ! Why did it dote on a fast - fading treasure ? Tears , like the rain - drops , may fall without measure , But rapture and beauty they can ...
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Night's silvery vail hung low On Jordan's bosom , and the eddies curled Their glassy rings beneath it , like the still , Unbroken beating of the sleeper's pulse . The reeds bent down the stream ; the willow leaves , With a soft cheek ...
Night's silvery vail hung low On Jordan's bosom , and the eddies curled Their glassy rings beneath it , like the still , Unbroken beating of the sleeper's pulse . The reeds bent down the stream ; the willow leaves , With a soft cheek ...
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That bright lake is still as a liquid sky : And when o'er its bosom the swift clouds fly , They pass like thoughts o'er a clear , blue eye . The fringe of thin foam that their sepulcher binds Is as light as the clouds that are borne by ...
That bright lake is still as a liquid sky : And when o'er its bosom the swift clouds fly , They pass like thoughts o'er a clear , blue eye . The fringe of thin foam that their sepulcher binds Is as light as the clouds that are borne by ...
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| Title | The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises in Elocution |
| Author | Warren P. Edgarton |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Mason Brothers, 1860 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 30 May 2007 |
| Length | 502 pages |
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