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... rend and sear ! Can'st thou allay my pangs - even one ? Old man ! What dotage brings thee here ? So spake the Hermit of the wood That trembles o'er Gavarni's flood . Men wist not why he came , nor whence . 20 A LEGEND OF GLENCOE .
... rend and sear ! Can'st thou allay my pangs - even one ? Old man ! What dotage brings thee here ? So spake the Hermit of the wood That trembles o'er Gavarni's flood . Men wist not why he came , nor whence . 20 A LEGEND OF GLENCOE .
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... Not for the Southern's sunny plain , Waving with seas of golden grain ; Not for his lawns and stately woods , Would they exchange those solitudes ! More welcome far those rocks arrayed In morning's grey and 32 A LEGEND OF GLENCOE .
... Not for the Southern's sunny plain , Waving with seas of golden grain ; Not for his lawns and stately woods , Would they exchange those solitudes ! More welcome far those rocks arrayed In morning's grey and 32 A LEGEND OF GLENCOE .
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... deep . Gently his soul had taken wing , E'en as the wandering bird of spring Checks his wood - note , and flits away , Whene'er his blooming bowers decay ; While yet his music , deep and clear , Is 68 A LEGEND OF GLENCOE .
... deep . Gently his soul had taken wing , E'en as the wandering bird of spring Checks his wood - note , and flits away , Whene'er his blooming bowers decay ; While yet his music , deep and clear , Is 68 A LEGEND OF GLENCOE .
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... , My standard of fire is unfurled ; Where Etna the lava - torrent pours O'er the crashing woods and the groaning shores , My throne is a ruined world . Where Famine stalks , And the Plague Fiend walks Through 102 THE SPIRIT OF IRE .
... , My standard of fire is unfurled ; Where Etna the lava - torrent pours O'er the crashing woods and the groaning shores , My throne is a ruined world . Where Famine stalks , And the Plague Fiend walks Through 102 THE SPIRIT OF IRE .
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... woods , the ever - whispering woods ; There summer rears a leafy colonnade , Where sweetly - pensive meditation broods , With nought the dim seclusion to invade , Save a lost sunbeam wandering ' mid the trees , Or the leaf dancing to ...
... woods , the ever - whispering woods ; There summer rears a leafy colonnade , Where sweetly - pensive meditation broods , With nought the dim seclusion to invade , Save a lost sunbeam wandering ' mid the trees , Or the leaf dancing to ...
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