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Page 90
Hark ! the notes on my ear that play Are set to words ; -as they float they say , " Passing away ! passing away ! " But no ! it was not a fairy's shell , Blown on the beach so merry and clear ; Nor was it the tongue of a silver bell ...
Hark ! the notes on my ear that play Are set to words ; -as they float they say , " Passing away ! passing away ! " But no ! it was not a fairy's shell , Blown on the beach so merry and clear ; Nor was it the tongue of a silver bell ...
Page 91
Rocked on her breast , as she swung all day ; And she seemed , in the same silver tone , to say , " Passing away ! passing away ! " While yet I looked , what a change there came ! Her eye was quenched , and her cheek was wan : Stooping ...
Rocked on her breast , as she swung all day ; And she seemed , in the same silver tone , to say , " Passing away ! passing away ! " While yet I looked , what a change there came ! Her eye was quenched , and her cheek was wan : Stooping ...
Page 106
... We have no strength but shall soon be riven ; We have no power wherein man may trust ; Like him are we things of time and dust ; And the legend we blazon with beam and ray , And the song of our silence , is — ' Passing away .
... We have no strength but shall soon be riven ; We have no power wherein man may trust ; Like him are we things of time and dust ; And the legend we blazon with beam and ray , And the song of our silence , is — ' Passing away .
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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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