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... dead , When mass for Kilmeny's soul had been sung , When the bedesman had pray'd and the dead bell rung , 528 yorlin ] the yellow - hammer . hindberrye ] bramble . minny ] mother . greet ] mourn . Late , late in gloamin ' when all was ...
... dead , When mass for Kilmeny's soul had been sung , When the bedesman had pray'd and the dead bell rung , 528 yorlin ] the yellow - hammer . hindberrye ] bramble . minny ] mother . greet ] mourn . Late , late in gloamin ' when all was ...
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... dead ! ' All day within the dreamy house , The doors upon their hinges creak'd ; The blue fly sung in the pane ; the mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd , Or from the crevice peer'd about . Old faces glimmer'd thro ' the doors ...
... dead ! ' All day within the dreamy house , The doors upon their hinges creak'd ; The blue fly sung in the pane ; the mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd , Or from the crevice peer'd about . Old faces glimmer'd thro ' the doors ...
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Arthur Quiller-Couch. No. Fame is a food that dead men eat . Farewell ! thou art too dear for my possessing . Fear no more the heat o ' the sun . 829 163 150 Felix Randal the farrier , O he is dead then ? my duty all ended 837 First came ...
Arthur Quiller-Couch. No. Fame is a food that dead men eat . Farewell ! thou art too dear for my possessing . Fear no more the heat o ' the sun . 829 163 150 Felix Randal the farrier , O he is dead then ? my duty all ended 837 First came ...
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Alexander Montgomerie b 1540 d | 80 |
Fulke Greville Lord Brooke b 1554 | 145 |
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 Arthur Quiller-Couch,Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch No preview available - 1966 |
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