National LyricsTicknor and Fields, 1865 - 104 pages |
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... fell in early youth The burden of unwelcome truth , And left us , weak and frail and few , The censor's painful work to do . Thenceforth our life a fight became , The air we breathed was hot with blame ; For not with gauged and softened ...
... fell in early youth The burden of unwelcome truth , And left us , weak and frail and few , The censor's painful work to do . Thenceforth our life a fight became , The air we breathed was hot with blame ; For not with gauged and softened ...
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John Greenleaf Whittier. A groan from Eutaw's haunted wood A wail where Camden's martyrs fell By every shrine of patriot blood , From Moultrie's wall and Jasper's well ! By storied hill and hallowed grot , By mossy wood and marshy glen ...
John Greenleaf Whittier. A groan from Eutaw's haunted wood A wail where Camden's martyrs fell By every shrine of patriot blood , From Moultrie's wall and Jasper's well ! By storied hill and hallowed grot , By mossy wood and marshy glen ...
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... Pluck upon your heads an ill Which shall grow and deepen still . With your bondman's right arm bare , With his heart of black despair , Stand alone , if stand ye dare ! 31 Onward with your fell design ; Dig the gulf and.
... Pluck upon your heads an ill Which shall grow and deepen still . With your bondman's right arm bare , With his heart of black despair , Stand alone , if stand ye dare ! 31 Onward with your fell design ; Dig the gulf and.
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John Greenleaf Whittier. Onward with your fell design ; Dig the gulf and draw the line : Fire beneath your feet the mine : Deeply , when the wide abyss Yawns between your land and this , Shall ye feel your helplessness . By the hearth ...
John Greenleaf Whittier. Onward with your fell design ; Dig the gulf and draw the line : Fire beneath your feet the mine : Deeply , when the wide abyss Yawns between your land and this , Shall ye feel your helplessness . By the hearth ...
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... fell , Like a dropped star , the blazing shell . Now all is hushed : the gleaming lines Stand moveless as the neighboring pines ; While through them , sullen , grim , and slow , The conquered hosts of England go : O'Hara's brow belies ...
... fell , Like a dropped star , the blazing shell . Now all is hushed : the gleaming lines Stand moveless as the neighboring pines ; While through them , sullen , grim , and slow , The conquered hosts of England go : O'Hara's brow belies ...
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