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WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST . H. W. LONGFELLOW . TELL me not , in mournful numbers , " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead that slumbers , And things are not what they seem .
WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST . H. W. LONGFELLOW . TELL me not , in mournful numbers , " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead that slumbers , And things are not what they seem .
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Ay - though it bid me rifle My heart's last fount for its insatiate thirst— Though every life - strung nerve be maddened firstThough it should bid me stifle The yearning in my throat for my sweet child , And taunt its mother till my ...
Ay - though it bid me rifle My heart's last fount for its insatiate thirst— Though every life - strung nerve be maddened firstThough it should bid me stifle The yearning in my throat for my sweet child , And taunt its mother till my ...
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The brazen clang of the tremulous bell ,“ Old — old , weary and old ;The heart grows old ; for the world is cold , ” — Solemnly sighs the far - spent knell . The dark pines mingle in pale starlight , Like the phantom - forms of a ...
The brazen clang of the tremulous bell ,“ Old — old , weary and old ;The heart grows old ; for the world is cold , ” — Solemnly sighs the far - spent knell . The dark pines mingle in pale starlight , Like the phantom - forms of a ...
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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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