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... speak ,What ranger of the winds can dare , Proud mountain king ! with thee compare ; Or lift his gaudier plumes on high Before thy native majesty , When thou hast ta'en thy seat alone Upon thy cloud - encircled throne ?
... speak ,What ranger of the winds can dare , Proud mountain king ! with thee compare ; Or lift his gaudier plumes on high Before thy native majesty , When thou hast ta'en thy seat alone Upon thy cloud - encircled throne ?
Page 227
Parents , and home , and friends : Ye sleep beneath a mountain pall ; A mountain's plumage o'er you bends . The cliff - yew of funereal gloom , Is now the only mourning plume That nods above a people's tomb .
Parents , and home , and friends : Ye sleep beneath a mountain pall ; A mountain's plumage o'er you bends . The cliff - yew of funereal gloom , Is now the only mourning plume That nods above a people's tomb .
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Slowly it came in its mountain wrath ; And the forest vanished before its path ; And the rude cliffs bowed ; and the waters fled ; And the living were buried , while over their head They heard the full march of their foe as he sped ;And ...
Slowly it came in its mountain wrath ; And the forest vanished before its path ; And the rude cliffs bowed ; and the waters fled ; And the living were buried , while over their head They heard the full march of their foe as he sped ;And ...
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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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