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... wild scramble , that ignoble mob of firemen , engineers , waiters and crew , rushed for the boats , and aban- doned the helpless women , children , and men to the mercy of the deep ! Four hours there were from the catastrophe of the ...
... wild scramble , that ignoble mob of firemen , engineers , waiters and crew , rushed for the boats , and aban- doned the helpless women , children , and men to the mercy of the deep ! Four hours there were from the catastrophe of the ...
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... wild , The death - song of her people . High it rose Above the tumult of the tide that bore The victims to their doom . The boy beheld The strange , stern beauty in his mother's eye , And held his breath with awe . Her song grew faint ...
... wild , The death - song of her people . High it rose Above the tumult of the tide that bore The victims to their doom . The boy beheld The strange , stern beauty in his mother's eye , And held his breath with awe . Her song grew faint ...
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... wild went o'er his child , And he was left lamenting . Ex . XVIII . TO THE EVENING WIND . WM . C. BRYANT . SPIRIT that breathest through my lattice , thou That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day , Gratefully flows thy freshness ...
... wild went o'er his child , And he was left lamenting . Ex . XVIII . TO THE EVENING WIND . WM . C. BRYANT . SPIRIT that breathest through my lattice , thou That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day , Gratefully flows thy freshness ...
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... wild grape shall cluster , And o'er him the leaves of the ivy be shed . There shall they mix with the fern and the heather , There shall the young eagle shed its first feather , The wolf with his wild cubs shall lie there together , And ...
... wild grape shall cluster , And o'er him the leaves of the ivy be shed . There shall they mix with the fern and the heather , There shall the young eagle shed its first feather , The wolf with his wild cubs shall lie there together , And ...
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... wild goose , flying southward , On the wing , the clamorous Wawa ; Thinking of the great war - parties , How they came to buy his arrows , Could not fight without his arrows . Ah , no more such noble warriors Could be fouud on earth as ...
... wild goose , flying southward , On the wing , the clamorous Wawa ; Thinking of the great war - parties , How they came to buy his arrows , Could not fight without his arrows . Ah , no more such noble warriors Could be fouud on earth as ...
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