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... cold . Heaven's air is better than the cold dead Behold me : I am vast , and clad in iron , And tried ; and I have stood on many a field Of blood , and I have fought with many a foe : Never was that field lost , or that foe saved . O ...
... cold . Heaven's air is better than the cold dead Behold me : I am vast , and clad in iron , And tried ; and I have stood on many a field Of blood , and I have fought with many a foe : Never was that field lost , or that foe saved . O ...
Page 380
... cold queen of England is looking in the glass , The shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass ; From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun , And the Lord ' upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun . Dim drums ...
... cold queen of England is looking in the glass , The shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass ; From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun , And the Lord ' upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun . Dim drums ...
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... Cold , he thought , Cold as cut - glass That holds a burning eye of candle - light Her body is . Its beauty's to distract The tender lover , its answer's to deflect His anxious longing and to make it linger In thinking ways ; it ...
... Cold , he thought , Cold as cut - glass That holds a burning eye of candle - light Her body is . Its beauty's to distract The tender lover , its answer's to deflect His anxious longing and to make it linger In thinking ways ; it ...
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