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Page vii
... Hour of Death , 16. Death of Oriska , 17. Lord Ullin's Daughter , 18. The Evening Wind , 19. The World of Beauty Around Us , 20. The Vulture , 21. The Pioneer , 22. The Bachelors ' Sale , 23. His Captors to Andrè , 24. Hiawatha's Wooing ...
... Hour of Death , 16. Death of Oriska , 17. Lord Ullin's Daughter , 18. The Evening Wind , 19. The World of Beauty Around Us , 20. The Vulture , 21. The Pioneer , 22. The Bachelors ' Sale , 23. His Captors to Andrè , 24. Hiawatha's Wooing ...
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... Hour of Death , Death of Oriska , The Avenging Child The Prisoner , Morning Meditations , To the Neapolitans , The Field of Talavera , . The Seer , Catiline's Reply , Lockhart , 162 Lockhart . 181 Lockhart , 207 Mackay , 163 Shea , 63 ...
... Hour of Death , Death of Oriska , The Avenging Child The Prisoner , Morning Meditations , To the Neapolitans , The Field of Talavera , . The Seer , Catiline's Reply , Lockhart , 162 Lockhart . 181 Lockhart , 207 Mackay , 163 Shea , 63 ...
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... hour was come . The signal ball fell at Greenwich . It was noon also at Liverpool . The anchors were weighed ; the great hull swayed to the current ; the national colors streamed abroad , as if themselves instinct with life and national ...
... hour was come . The signal ball fell at Greenwich . It was noon also at Liverpool . The anchors were weighed ; the great hull swayed to the current ; the national colors streamed abroad , as if themselves instinct with life and national ...
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... hours there were from the catastrophe of the collision to the catastrophe of SINKING ! Oh , what a burial was here ! Not as when one is borne from his home , among weeping throngs , and gently carried to the green fields , and laid ...
... hours there were from the catastrophe of the collision to the catastrophe of SINKING ! Oh , what a burial was here ! Not as when one is borne from his home , among weeping throngs , and gently carried to the green fields , and laid ...
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... hours of grief , The silver links than lengthen Joy's visits when most brief ; There eyes in all their splendor Are ... hour of woe ? Think not she dwelleth only In temples built for prayer ; For Home itself is lonely Unless her smiles ...
... hours of grief , The silver links than lengthen Joy's visits when most brief ; There eyes in all their splendor Are ... hour of woe ? Think not she dwelleth only In temples built for prayer ; For Home itself is lonely Unless her smiles ...
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