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66 Bring forth , " cries the monarch , " the vessels of gold , Which my father tore down from the temples of old : Bring forth ; and we ' ll drink , while the trumpets are blown , To the gods of bright silver , of gold , and of stone ...
66 Bring forth , " cries the monarch , " the vessels of gold , Which my father tore down from the temples of old : Bring forth ; and we ' ll drink , while the trumpets are blown , To the gods of bright silver , of gold , and of stone ...
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Of the echoes that swim o'er thy bright blue lake , And , deep in its caverns , their merry bells shake , And repeat the young huntsman's cry ;That clatter and laugh when the goatherds take Their browzing flocks , at the morning's break ...
Of the echoes that swim o'er thy bright blue lake , And , deep in its caverns , their merry bells shake , And repeat the young huntsman's cry ;That clatter and laugh when the goatherds take Their browzing flocks , at the morning's break ...
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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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