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" twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. "
The Works of Lord Byron - Page 190
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf ...

502 pages
...the rest, did feelingly aver. And now for awhile — " Our task is done : our song hath ceased ; our theme Has died into an echo. It is fit The spell should break of this protracted dream. And what is writ is writ ; would it were worthier !" And BO, wishing you, kind reader, and the gallant...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 30

1818 - 638 pages
...freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted, to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. My task is done — my song hath' ceased — my theme: Has died into an echo ; it is fit The spell...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 64

England - 1848 - 788 pages
...freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee. And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here." These Stanzas may be separated from the Poem — the feeling of readers innumerable so separates them...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 3

England - 1818 - 762 pages
...thy mane — aa I do here. 185. My task is done — my song hath ceased— my theme Has died into nn echo ; it is fit The spell should break of this protracted dream. The torch shall be extinguish 'd which hath lit My midnight lamp— and what is writ, is writ, — Would it were worthier...
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The Visitor, or, Literary miscellany

1818 - 354 pages
...Harold , I remember one stanza, it is deeply imprinted on my memory — hearken to it Monkbarns : — My task is done — my song hath ceased — my theme...break of this protracted dream. The torch shall be extinguished, which huth lit My midnight lamp ; and what U writ, is writ, — Would it were worthier...
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Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, Volume 2

William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 pages
...distant readers whom it may be some time before Lord Byron's volume reaches. My task is done — ray song hath ceased— my theme Has died into an echo...should break of this protracted dream. The torch shall he extinguished which hath lit My midnight lamp — and what is writ is writ, — Would it were worthier...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 3

1818 - 806 pages
...freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane— as I do here. 185. My task is done— my song hath ceased— my theme Has died into an echo ; it is fit The spell...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 10; Volume 28

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1818 - 648 pages
...freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. ' My task is done — my song hath ceased — my theme Has died into an echo ; it is fit The spell...
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Peak scenery, or, Excursions in Derbyshire:: made chiefly for the purpose of ...

Ebenezer Rhodes - Derbyshire (England) - 1899 - 318 pages
...pains and pleasures that have attended it are at an end. " My task is done ; my song hath ceas'd ; my theme Has died into an echo ; — it is fit The spell should break of this protracted drearn : The torch shall he extinguish'd which hath lit My midnight lamp — and what is writ is writ...
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Briefe an eine deutsche Edelfrau über die neuesten englischen Dichter

Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here *). *) Ach! dafs die Wüste mein Wohnsitz wäre, ein holdes Wesea •dort zu meiner Bedienung , dafs...
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