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Page 77
For sore dismayed , through storm and shade , His child he did discover , One lovely hand she stretched for aid , And one was round her lover . " Come back ! come back ! " he cried in grief , " Across this stormy water , And I'll ...
For sore dismayed , through storm and shade , His child he did discover , One lovely hand she stretched for aid , And one was round her lover . " Come back ! come back ! " he cried in grief , " Across this stormy water , And I'll ...
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When the wild hunter takes his lonely way , Tracks through tempestuous snows his savage prey , Or , wrestling with the might of raging seas , Where round the pole the eternal billows freeze , Plucks from their jaws the stricken whale ...
When the wild hunter takes his lonely way , Tracks through tempestuous snows his savage prey , Or , wrestling with the might of raging seas , Where round the pole the eternal billows freeze , Plucks from their jaws the stricken whale ...
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TELL me , ye wingéd winds , That round my pathway roar , Do ye not know some spot Where mortals weep no more ; Some lone and pleasant dell Some valley in the west , Where , free from toil and pain , The weary soul may rest ?
TELL me , ye wingéd winds , That round my pathway roar , Do ye not know some spot Where mortals weep no more ; Some lone and pleasant dell Some valley in the west , Where , free from toil and pain , The weary soul may rest ?
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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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