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Page 304
SWEET AFTON Flow gently , sweet Afton ! among thy green braes , Flow gently , I'll sing thee a song in thy praise ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream , Flow gently , sweet Afton , disturb not her dream .
SWEET AFTON Flow gently , sweet Afton ! among thy green braes , Flow gently , I'll sing thee a song in thy praise ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream , Flow gently , sweet Afton , disturb not her dream .
Page 475
O fair green - girdled mother of mine , Sea , that art clothed with the sun and the rain , Thy sweet hard kisses are strong like wine , Thy large embraces are keen like pain . Save me and hide me with all thy waves , Find me one grave ...
O fair green - girdled mother of mine , Sea , that art clothed with the sun and the rain , Thy sweet hard kisses are strong like wine , Thy large embraces are keen like pain . Save me and hide me with all thy waves , Find me one grave ...
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I would wash the dust of the world in a soft green flood ; Here between sea and sea , in the fairy wood , I have found a delicate , wave - green solitude . Here , in the fairy wood , between sea and sea , I have heard the song of a ...
I would wash the dust of the world in a soft green flood ; Here between sea and sea , in the fairy wood , I have found a delicate , wave - green solitude . Here , in the fairy wood , between sea and sea , I have heard the song of a ...
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| Title | Collins Albatross Book of Verse: English and American Poetry from the Thirteenth Century to the Present Day School edition |
| Editor | Louis Untermeyer |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Collins, 1960 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 672 pages |
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