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... tower , While prostrate nations kiss the rod of power ! Lo ! where her pennons , waving high , aspire , Bold Victory hovers near , " with eyes of fire ! " While Lusitania hails , with just applause , The brave defenders of her injured ...
... tower , While prostrate nations kiss the rod of power ! Lo ! where her pennons , waving high , aspire , Bold Victory hovers near , " with eyes of fire ! " While Lusitania hails , with just applause , The brave defenders of her injured ...
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... towers with feudal grandeur crown'd ; Those times are fled , when fair Iberia's clim Beheld thy Gothic reign , thy pomp sublime ; And all thy glories , all thy deeds of yore , Live but in legends wild , and poet's lore . Lo ! where thy ...
... towers with feudal grandeur crown'd ; Those times are fled , when fair Iberia's clim Beheld thy Gothic reign , thy pomp sublime ; And all thy glories , all thy deeds of yore , Live but in legends wild , and poet's lore . Lo ! where thy ...
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... towers , Its fairy - palace and enchanted bowers ; There all Arabian fiction e'er could tell , Of potent genii or of wizard spell ; All that a poet's dream could picture bright , One sweet Elysium , charm'd the wond'ring sight ! Too ...
... towers , Its fairy - palace and enchanted bowers ; There all Arabian fiction e'er could tell , Of potent genii or of wizard spell ; All that a poet's dream could picture bright , One sweet Elysium , charm'd the wond'ring sight ! Too ...
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... tower High on the pyramid of fame and power ; Vain all the efforts of her numerous foes , Her might , superior still , triumphant rose . Thus , on proud Lebanon's exalted brow , The cedar , frowning o'er the plains below , Though storms ...
... tower High on the pyramid of fame and power ; Vain all the efforts of her numerous foes , Her might , superior still , triumphant rose . Thus , on proud Lebanon's exalted brow , The cedar , frowning o'er the plains below , Though storms ...
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... towers ; The soul to struggle and to dare , Is mingled with our northern air , And dust beneath our soil is lying Of those who died for fame undying . Tread'st thou that soil ! and can it be , No loftier thought is roused in thee ? Doth ...
... towers ; The soul to struggle and to dare , Is mingled with our northern air , And dust beneath our soil is lying Of those who died for fame undying . Tread'st thou that soil ! and can it be , No loftier thought is roused in thee ? Doth ...
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Page 563 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath. And stars to set — but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death ! THE LOST PLEIAD.
Page 552 - And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?
Page 552 - once again he cried, " If I may yet be gone ! " And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames roll'd on.
Page 540 - Bring flowers, fresh flowers, for the bride to wear ! They were born to blush in her shining hair. She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth, She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth, Her place is now by another's side — Bring flowers for the locks of the fair young bride...
Page 552 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.
Page 539 - Thou hast the starry gems, the burning gold, Won from ten thousand royal argosies! Sweep o'er thy spoils, thou wild and wrathful main ! Earth claims not these again.
Page 563 - Thou art where friend meets friend, Beneath the shadow of the elm to rest; Thou art where foe meets foe, and trumpets rend The skies, and swords beat down the princely crest.
Page 539 - O'er youth's bright locks, and beauty's flowery crown : Yet must thou hear a voice — Restore the dead ! Earth shall reclaim her precious things from thee ! — Restore the dead, thou sea ! BRING FLOWERS.
Page 255 - Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares. 12 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.
Page 539 - Give back the true and brave ! (rive back the lost and lovely ! those for whom The place was kept at board and hearth so long, The prayer went up through midnight's breathless gloom, And the vain yearning...