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... round chalk hills then ! But for all their loneliness they are not repellant . There is a fascination , even , in those smooth hills , with their high , round- ed backs , in the light of a winter morn , At least there was to me that ...
... round chalk hills then ! But for all their loneliness they are not repellant . There is a fascination , even , in those smooth hills , with their high , round- ed backs , in the light of a winter morn , At least there was to me that ...
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... round the hen - house , with the steps of the prowling fox . Each bough is laden ; fir and yew are meant to bear snow on their narrow leaves . The boughs of the yew are elastic , and those of the fir , the true mountaineer , are formed ...
... round the hen - house , with the steps of the prowling fox . Each bough is laden ; fir and yew are meant to bear snow on their narrow leaves . The boughs of the yew are elastic , and those of the fir , the true mountaineer , are formed ...
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... round ! There is glorious Orion , with his belt and his sword , and his bright shoulders and lion skin . So we see him ; but the Northmen saw Frigga's distaff , and later he became Our Lady's Rock , the misty look of the nebula in his ...
... round ! There is glorious Orion , with his belt and his sword , and his bright shoulders and lion skin . So we see him ; but the Northmen saw Frigga's distaff , and later he became Our Lady's Rock , the misty look of the nebula in his ...
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... round which our entire universe of stars revolves , a notion which we are sorry to lose after connecting it ( rashly ) with the ' sweet influences of the Pleiades ! ' A moderate telescope reveals far more stars in the cluster ; in fact ...
... round which our entire universe of stars revolves , a notion which we are sorry to lose after connecting it ( rashly ) with the ' sweet influences of the Pleiades ! ' A moderate telescope reveals far more stars in the cluster ; in fact ...
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... round her , and the sun comes up . If mists hang on the horizon , he is round , red , and beamless ; but often he comes with his flood of light , slanting , and making the hoar frost on " the grass retreat with the shadows of the trees ...
... round her , and the sun comes up . If mists hang on the horizon , he is round , red , and beamless ; but often he comes with his flood of light , slanting , and making the hoar frost on " the grass retreat with the shadows of the trees ...
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