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... looked and looked , self - questioned what this freight Which the new - comer carried through the waste Could mean , the Arab told me that the stone ( To give it in the language of the dream ) Was Euclid's Elements ' ; and ' This ...
... looked and looked , self - questioned what this freight Which the new - comer carried through the waste Could mean , the Arab told me that the stone ( To give it in the language of the dream ) Was Euclid's Elements ' ; and ' This ...
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... looked upon the rotting sea , And drew my eyes away ; I looked upon the rotting deck , And there the dead men lay . I looked to Heaven , and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gusht , A wicked whisper came , and made My heart as ...
... looked upon the rotting sea , And drew my eyes away ; I looked upon the rotting deck , And there the dead men lay . I looked to Heaven , and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gusht , A wicked whisper came , and made My heart as ...
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... looked So wistfully at the day . I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky , And at every wandering cloud that trailed Its ravelled fleeces by . He did not wring his ...
... looked So wistfully at the day . I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky , And at every wandering cloud that trailed Its ravelled fleeces by . He did not wring his ...
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER 1340?1400 | 1 |
ROBERT HENRYSON c 14301506 | 7 |
ANONYMOUS | 15 |
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