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... rise and sink On the chafed ocean - side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast- The desert and illimitable air- Lone wandering , but not lost . All day thy wings have fanned , At that far height , the ...
... rise and sink On the chafed ocean - side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast- The desert and illimitable air- Lone wandering , but not lost . All day thy wings have fanned , At that far height , the ...
Page 101
... rise to a higher state of culture , so these same processes , which can choke off the water at its source or pollute it in passage , can also demolish the " happy land . " This con- clusion is left unstated , and the conjectures of the ...
... rise to a higher state of culture , so these same processes , which can choke off the water at its source or pollute it in passage , can also demolish the " happy land . " This con- clusion is left unstated , and the conjectures of the ...
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... rise spontaneously within the poet's mind as his eye rested upon the natural objects appropriate to his solemn and pleasing thoughts . These analogies were not , of course , limited to the blank verse . " To the Fringed Gentian ...
... rise spontaneously within the poet's mind as his eye rested upon the natural objects appropriate to his solemn and pleasing thoughts . These analogies were not , of course , limited to the blank verse . " To the Fringed Gentian ...
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