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... sweet and solemn silence ' gan to brood , The moon rose up behind the craggy steep , And touch'd with silver light cliff , strand , and flood : Then , though no hope was mine , yet by degrees Peace in the sea's voice o'er my spirit ...
... sweet and solemn silence ' gan to brood , The moon rose up behind the craggy steep , And touch'd with silver light cliff , strand , and flood : Then , though no hope was mine , yet by degrees Peace in the sea's voice o'er my spirit ...
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... sweet notes pass'd out to sea , Reach'd the vessel darkly heaving , To the sailors peace brought ye ; Peace brought ye ! to them recalling Thoughts of cottage , homes and fires , Shadows on their minds are falling Of their loves , their ...
... sweet notes pass'd out to sea , Reach'd the vessel darkly heaving , To the sailors peace brought ye ; Peace brought ye ! to them recalling Thoughts of cottage , homes and fires , Shadows on their minds are falling Of their loves , their ...
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... sweet repose , My sails flapp'd idly on the gentle gale , But now the storm - cloud dark and darker grows ; Alas ! if on its voyage my bark must fail . The calmest waters I have left behind , Nor know if them I e'er may greet again ...
... sweet repose , My sails flapp'd idly on the gentle gale , But now the storm - cloud dark and darker grows ; Alas ! if on its voyage my bark must fail . The calmest waters I have left behind , Nor know if them I e'er may greet again ...
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... ; " The Lady of the Lord of Arvon , Of Arvon's waste and Moel More , Died in the night amid the birth - pangs , And dying , thee , son Arthur , bore . Mine own sweet babe lay in his cot Beside the 58 GWENDOLENE AND ARTHUR .
... ; " The Lady of the Lord of Arvon , Of Arvon's waste and Moel More , Died in the night amid the birth - pangs , And dying , thee , son Arthur , bore . Mine own sweet babe lay in his cot Beside the 58 GWENDOLENE AND ARTHUR .
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... sweet cadences around the bay , But that sweet music brought no rest to me , For thou wert absent , Arthur ; ah , how long All the bright noontide unto me did seem ! As unto those whose thirst burns deep and strong Long seems the road ...
... sweet cadences around the bay , But that sweet music brought no rest to me , For thou wert absent , Arthur ; ah , how long All the bright noontide unto me did seem ! As unto those whose thirst burns deep and strong Long seems the road ...
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