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Life's span With equal foot , rich friend , impartial Fate Knocks at the cottage , and the palace gate : forbids thee to extend thy cares , And stretch thy hopes beyond thy years : Night soon will seize , and you must quickly go To ...
Life's span With equal foot , rich friend , impartial Fate Knocks at the cottage , and the palace gate : forbids thee to extend thy cares , And stretch thy hopes beyond thy years : Night soon will seize , and you must quickly go To ...
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Then she passed on , her face as immobile as before in its setting of wavy gold hair . “ Entre or et roux Dieu fit ses longs cheveux . " One night Émile and Anglice were missing . They had flown — but whither , nobody knew , and nobody ...
Then she passed on , her face as immobile as before in its setting of wavy gold hair . “ Entre or et roux Dieu fit ses longs cheveux . " One night Émile and Anglice were missing . They had flown — but whither , nobody knew , and nobody ...
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“ I know not , ” said the second Shape , “ I only died last night ! ” ELMWOOD IN MEMORY OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL > HERE , in the twilight , at the well - known gate I linger , with no heart to enter more .
“ I know not , ” said the second Shape , “ I only died last night ! ” ELMWOOD IN MEMORY OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL > HERE , in the twilight , at the well - known gate I linger , with no heart to enter more .
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How often in still summer dusks He paused to note that transient phantom spark Flash on the air -- a light that outlasts him ! ! The night grows chill , as if it felt a breath Blown from that frozen city where he ...
How often in still summer dusks He paused to note that transient phantom spark Flash on the air -- a light that outlasts him ! ! The night grows chill , as if it felt a breath Blown from that frozen city where he ...
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... grandest funeral That ever passed on earth ; But no man heard the trampling , Or saw the train go forth Noiselessly as the daylight Comes back when night is done , And the crimson streak on ocean's cheek Grows into the great sun .
... grandest funeral That ever passed on earth ; But no man heard the trampling , Or saw the train go forth Noiselessly as the daylight Comes back when night is done , And the crimson streak on ocean's cheek Grows into the great sun .
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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