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... lone , hollow aisles sad Echo calls At each slow step ; deep sighs the breathing gloom , And weeping fields around bewail their empress ' doom . Where o'er a hundred realms the throne uprose , The screech - owl nests , the panther ...
... lone , hollow aisles sad Echo calls At each slow step ; deep sighs the breathing gloom , And weeping fields around bewail their empress ' doom . Where o'er a hundred realms the throne uprose , The screech - owl nests , the panther ...
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... lone valley , with cedars o'erspread , From war's dread confusion I pensively stray'd- The gloom from the face of fair heaven retired , The winds ceased to murmur , the thunders expired ; Perfumes , as of Eden , flow'd sweetly along ...
... lone valley , with cedars o'erspread , From war's dread confusion I pensively stray'd- The gloom from the face of fair heaven retired , The winds ceased to murmur , the thunders expired ; Perfumes , as of Eden , flow'd sweetly along ...
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... lone land that met the stranger there ! No smiling villages or curling smoke The busy haunts of busy men bespoke ; No solitary hut , the banks along , Sent forth blithe labour's homely , rustic song ; No urchin gamboll'd on the smooth ...
... lone land that met the stranger there ! No smiling villages or curling smoke The busy haunts of busy men bespoke ; No solitary hut , the banks along , Sent forth blithe labour's homely , rustic song ; No urchin gamboll'd on the smooth ...
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... lone haunt hies , To chase the viewless insect through the skies ; The bat began his , lantern - loving flight , The lonely whip - poor - will , our bird of night , Ever unseen , yet ever seeming near , His shrill note quaver'd in the ...
... lone haunt hies , To chase the viewless insect through the skies ; The bat began his , lantern - loving flight , The lonely whip - poor - will , our bird of night , Ever unseen , yet ever seeming near , His shrill note quaver'd in the ...
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... lone wanderings , Thine aged walls have seen ! - Could I have gazed upon the dome Above thy towers that swells , And heard , as evening's sun went down , Thy parting camels ' bells : - Could I have stood on Olivet , Where once the ...
... lone wanderings , Thine aged walls have seen ! - Could I have gazed upon the dome Above thy towers that swells , And heard , as evening's sun went down , Thy parting camels ' bells : - Could I have stood on Olivet , Where once the ...
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