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With merry songs we mock the wind That in the pine - top grieves , And slumber long and sweetly , On beds of oaken leaves . Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that ...
With merry songs we mock the wind That in the pine - top grieves , And slumber long and sweetly , On beds of oaken leaves . Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that ...
Page 144
Her cheerful address filled the guests with delight , As she welcomed them in with a smile ; Her heart was a stranger to childish affright , And Mary would walk by the abbey at night , When the wind whistled down the dark aisle .
Her cheerful address filled the guests with delight , As she welcomed them in with a smile ; Her heart was a stranger to childish affright , And Mary would walk by the abbey at night , When the wind whistled down the dark aisle .
Page 145
With fearless good humor did Mary comply , And her way to the abbey she bent ; The night it was dark , and the wind it was high , And , as hollowly howling , it swept through the sky , She shivered with cold as she went .
With fearless good humor did Mary comply , And her way to the abbey she bent ; The night it was dark , and the wind it was high , And , as hollowly howling , it swept through the sky , She shivered with cold as she went .
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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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