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... bright with stars , and rouse The wide old wood from his majestic rest , Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange , deep harmonies that haunt his breast ; Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower , and ...
... bright with stars , and rouse The wide old wood from his majestic rest , Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange , deep harmonies that haunt his breast ; Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower , and ...
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... bright the flowery sod , Where first the child's glad spirit loves Its country and its God ! MRS . HEMANS . THE CLEMENCY OF LUITPRAND . THE Lombards , or " long beards , " who fought under Alboin , are thus described by Gibbon ...
... bright the flowery sod , Where first the child's glad spirit loves Its country and its God ! MRS . HEMANS . THE CLEMENCY OF LUITPRAND . THE Lombards , or " long beards , " who fought under Alboin , are thus described by Gibbon ...
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... bright torch triumphant on . I saw the expectant nations stand , To catch the coming flame in turn- I saw , from ready hand to hand , The clear , but struggling glory burn . And , oh , their joy , as it came near , " Twas , in itself ...
... bright torch triumphant on . I saw the expectant nations stand , To catch the coming flame in turn- I saw , from ready hand to hand , The clear , but struggling glory burn . And , oh , their joy , as it came near , " Twas , in itself ...
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... bright yellow crocuses , which every where abound ; and the children , ten to one , are peeping into the first bird's - nest of the season - the hedge- sparrow's , with its four sea - green eggs snugly but unwisely built in the pile of ...
... bright yellow crocuses , which every where abound ; and the children , ten to one , are peeping into the first bird's - nest of the season - the hedge- sparrow's , with its four sea - green eggs snugly but unwisely built in the pile of ...
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... bright late quiet , would that I Might wear out life , like thee , ' mid bowers and brooks , And , dearer yet , the sunshine of kind looks , And music of kind voices ever nigh ; And when my last sand twinkled in the glass , Pass ...
... bright late quiet , would that I Might wear out life , like thee , ' mid bowers and brooks , And , dearer yet , the sunshine of kind looks , And music of kind voices ever nigh ; And when my last sand twinkled in the glass , Pass ...
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