Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 59
and tried to prayBut or ever a prayer had gusht,A wicked whisper came, and madeMy heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close.And the balls like pulses beat; 30. In his notes on the poem, Coleridge stated that the last twolines of this stanza were composed by Wordsworth. 42 The Rime… … I WATCHED THE WATER-SNAKES The look with which they looked on meHad never passed away. An orphans curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead mans eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse. And yet I could not die. The moving Moon…
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