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So stately his form , and so lovely her face , That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret , and her father did fume , And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume , And the bride - maidens ...
So stately his form , and so lovely her face , That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret , and her father did fume , And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume , And the bride - maidens ...
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And aside they stood , Matron , and child , and pitiless manhood - all Who met him on his way - and let him pass . And onward through the open gate he came , A leper with the ashes on his brow , Sackcloth about his loins , and on his ...
And aside they stood , Matron , and child , and pitiless manhood - all Who met him on his way - and let him pass . And onward through the open gate he came , A leper with the ashes on his brow , Sackcloth about his loins , and on his ...
Page 405
A shudder shot through every vein ,All eyes were turned on high ! There stood the boy , with dizzy brain , Between the sea and sky ; No hold had he above , below ; Alone he stood in air : To that far height none dared ...
A shudder shot through every vein ,All eyes were turned on high ! There stood the boy , with dizzy brain , Between the sea and sky ; No hold had he above , below ; Alone he stood in air : To that far height none dared ...
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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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