In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief : Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. The Rover - Page 118edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
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| 1829 - 436 pages
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| 1831 - 548 pages
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