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... pale , the ghost of what I was , Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclined , And count the silent moments as they pass : The winged moments , whose unstaying speed No art can stop , or in their course arrest ; Whose flight shall shortly ...
... pale , the ghost of what I was , Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclined , And count the silent moments as they pass : The winged moments , whose unstaying speed No art can stop , or in their course arrest ; Whose flight shall shortly ...
Page 272
... pale ; And there the dying lamps did burn , Before thy low and lonely urn , O gallant chief of Otterburne , And thine , dark knight of Liddesdale ! O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition , lowly laid ! The moon on the east oriel ...
... pale ; And there the dying lamps did burn , Before thy low and lonely urn , O gallant chief of Otterburne , And thine , dark knight of Liddesdale ! O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition , lowly laid ! The moon on the east oriel ...
Page 281
... pale , That , but her breathing did not fail , And motion slight of eye and head , And of her bosom warranted , That neither sense nor pulse she lacks , You might have thought a form of wax , Wrought to the very life was there ; So ...
... pale , That , but her breathing did not fail , And motion slight of eye and head , And of her bosom warranted , That neither sense nor pulse she lacks , You might have thought a form of wax , Wrought to the very life was there ; So ...
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