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Journeys through bookland; a new and original plan for reading (1912)

Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve company · leaf 79

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as a marriage bell;But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a ris-ing; knell! Did ye not hear it?—No; twas but the wind,Or the car rattling oer the stony street;On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meetTo chase the glowing Hours with flying feet—But,… … BUT hark! Within a windowed niche of that high hallSate Brunswicks fated chieftain; he did hearThat sound the first amidst the festival.And caught its tone with Deaths prophetic ear. The Battle of Waterloo 63 And when they smiled because he deemed it near,His heart more truly knew that peal Joo…

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