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Well I remember , in my boyish days , How deep the feeling , when my eye looked forth On Nature , in her loveliness and storms ; How my heart gladdened , as the light of spring Came from the sun , with zephyrs , and with showers ...
Well I remember , in my boyish days , How deep the feeling , when my eye looked forth On Nature , in her loveliness and storms ; How my heart gladdened , as the light of spring Came from the sun , with zephyrs , and with showers ...
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conflagration , to the cold and unknown chambers of the deep ! What a hurried rush for safety and for life was there ! What piercing shrieks , bursting from ashy and quivering lips , rose above the hoarse gurgling of the waters ...
conflagration , to the cold and unknown chambers of the deep ! What a hurried rush for safety and for life was there ! What piercing shrieks , bursting from ashy and quivering lips , rose above the hoarse gurgling of the waters ...
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Thy fugitive course must be To realms beyond the deep ; so let us part In silence , and for ever . Rai . Let him fly Who holds no deep asylum in his breast , Wherein to shelter from the scoffs of men ! -I can sleep calmly here . Pro .
Thy fugitive course must be To realms beyond the deep ; so let us part In silence , and for ever . Rai . Let him fly Who holds no deep asylum in his breast , Wherein to shelter from the scoffs of men ! -I can sleep calmly here . Pro .
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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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