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Page 243
Where am I ? In the breathing world , or in the world of death ? " With sharp and sudden pang I drew another birth of breath ; My eyes drank in a doubtful light , my ears a doubtful sound ; And was that ship a real ship whose tackle ...
Where am I ? In the breathing world , or in the world of death ? " With sharp and sudden pang I drew another birth of breath ; My eyes drank in a doubtful light , my ears a doubtful sound ; And was that ship a real ship whose tackle ...
Page 305
Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweetWith the sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet , For only one sweet hour To feel as I used to feel , Before I knew the woes of want , And the walk that costs a ...
Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweetWith the sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet , For only one sweet hour To feel as I used to feel , Before I knew the woes of want , And the walk that costs a ...
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What strivings of agony with the hot breath of the flame and the suffocating smoke ; what moanings of the helpless , the trampled , and the crushed ! What invocations for aid , shrieked into the ears of mortals as impotent !
What strivings of agony with the hot breath of the flame and the suffocating smoke ; what moanings of the helpless , the trampled , and the crushed ! What invocations for aid , shrieked into the ears of mortals as impotent !
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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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