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Page 549
... seemed so strangely thin , Thin as the shrouded ghosts that haunt Scenes of their earthly sin . She clutched my arm ; with mordant words Assailed my quailing ear- Her face was like a starvèd bird's : Such speech do devils hear . Her ...
... seemed so strangely thin , Thin as the shrouded ghosts that haunt Scenes of their earthly sin . She clutched my arm ; with mordant words Assailed my quailing ear- Her face was like a starvèd bird's : Such speech do devils hear . Her ...
Page 600
... seemed to lift a wing , And words fell soft as willow - buds , " I came to find the Spring . " A timid voice , yet not afraid In ways so sweet to roam , As it with honey bees had played And could no more go home . Her home ! I saw the ...
... seemed to lift a wing , And words fell soft as willow - buds , " I came to find the Spring . " A timid voice , yet not afraid In ways so sweet to roam , As it with honey bees had played And could no more go home . Her home ! I saw the ...
Page 918
... seemed for wantoness to weep . Infinite streams continually did well Out of this fountain , sweet and fair to see , The which into an ample laver fell , And shortly grew to so great quantity , That like a little lake it seemed to be ...
... seemed for wantoness to weep . Infinite streams continually did well Out of this fountain , sweet and fair to see , The which into an ample laver fell , And shortly grew to so great quantity , That like a little lake it seemed to be ...
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