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... TOLL for the brave ! The brave that are no more , - All sunk beneath the wave , Fast by their native shore ! Eight hundred of the brave , Whose courage well was tried , Had made the vessel heel , And laid her on her side . A land breeze ...
... TOLL for the brave ! The brave that are no more , - All sunk beneath the wave , Fast by their native shore ! Eight hundred of the brave , Whose courage well was tried , Had made the vessel heel , And laid her on her side . A land breeze ...
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... Toll ye the church - bell , sad and slow , And tread softly and speak low ; For the old year lies a - dying . Old year , you must not die . You came to us so readily , You lived with us so steadily , Old year , you shall not die . He ...
... Toll ye the church - bell , sad and slow , And tread softly and speak low ; For the old year lies a - dying . Old year , you must not die . You came to us so readily , You lived with us so steadily , Old year , you shall not die . He ...
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... TOLL , toll , toll , MRS . LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY . Thou Bell by billows swung ; And , night and day , thy warning words Repeat with mournful tongue ! Toll for the queenly boat , Wrecked on yon rocky shore ; Sea - weed is in her palace ...
... TOLL , toll , toll , MRS . LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY . Thou Bell by billows swung ; And , night and day , thy warning words Repeat with mournful tongue ! Toll for the queenly boat , Wrecked on yon rocky shore ; Sea - weed is in her palace ...
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... Toll for the hearts that bleed ' Neath misery's furrowing trace ! Toll for the hapless orphan left The last of all his race ! Yea , with thy heaviest knell , From surge to rocky shore , Toll for the living , -not the dead , Whose mortal ...
... Toll for the hearts that bleed ' Neath misery's furrowing trace ! Toll for the hapless orphan left The last of all his race ! Yea , with thy heaviest knell , From surge to rocky shore , Toll for the living , -not the dead , Whose mortal ...
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... tolls the evening bell , The freshman lingers on the steps That frightful tale to tell . Ex . CXIX . - DEATH OF AGUILAR . FERNANDO , King of Aragon , before Granada lies , LOCKHART . With dukes and barons many a one , and champions of ...
... tolls the evening bell , The freshman lingers on the steps That frightful tale to tell . Ex . CXIX . - DEATH OF AGUILAR . FERNANDO , King of Aragon , before Granada lies , LOCKHART . With dukes and barons many a one , and champions of ...
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Annabel Lee attitude and action beauty bell Belshazzar beneath blood body bold bosom brave breast breath bright brow cheek child cloud cried Dacotahs dark dead death deep dream earth eloquence Erin go bragh expression falchion father fear feeling feet fire gesture glory grave hath head hear heard heart heaven Hiawatha hill hour Katydid king land Laughing Water light lips living Lochinvar look Lord mighty Mondamin moon morning mountain N. P. Willis nature ne'er never night noble Number o'er pale passed pride proud R. H. Barham Rhine rock rose round Samian wine shore sigh smile song soul speak speaker spirit stars stood style sweet sword tears tell tempest thee thine thou art thought throne thunder Toll verger voice vulgar boy waves weep wigwam wild wind wings word Yankee girls young