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he cried in grief , " Across this stormy water , And I'll forgive your Highland chief ; My daughter ! oh , my daughter ! " ' T was vain : the loud waves dashed the shore , Return , or aid preventing : The waters wild went o'er his child ...
he cried in grief , " Across this stormy water , And I'll forgive your Highland chief ; My daughter ! oh , my daughter ! " ' T was vain : the loud waves dashed the shore , Return , or aid preventing : The waters wild went o'er his child ...
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What piercing shrieks , bursting from ashy and quivering lips , rose above the hoarse gurgling of the waters , the roar and crackling of the flames , and rent the flushed and heated brow of night ! What frantic cries of the husband for ...
What piercing shrieks , bursting from ashy and quivering lips , rose above the hoarse gurgling of the waters , the roar and crackling of the flames , and rent the flushed and heated brow of night ! What frantic cries of the husband for ...
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In those woods , where I bent my youthful bow , I will still hunt the deer ; over yonder waters I will still glide , unrestrained , in my bark canoe . By those dashing water - falls I will still lay up my winter's store of food ...
In those woods , where I bent my youthful bow , I will still hunt the deer ; over yonder waters I will still glide , unrestrained , in my bark canoe . By those dashing water - falls I will still lay up my winter's store of food ...
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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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