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" Why smite," he asked in sad surprise, "The fair, the old?" Yet louder rang the Strong One's stroke, Yet nearer flashed his axe's gleam ; Shuddering and sick of heart I woke, As from a dream. I looked : aside the dust-cloud rolled, — The Waster seemed... "
Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends - Page 116
by Society of Friends. Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting - 1858
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Arabula: Or, The Divine Guest. Containing a New Collection of Gospels

Andrew Jackson Davis - Harmony (Philosophy) - 1867 - 422 pages
...and wept, to find His seat o'erthrown. 6 Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, O'erhung with playful locks of gold, " Why smite," he asked, in sad surprise, "The fair, the old?" 1 Yet louder rang the Strong One's stroke ; Yet nearer Hashed his ax's gleam ; Shuddering and sick...
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The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier: Complete in Two Volumes, Volume 1

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 410 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept, to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised...his dreamy eyes, O'erhung with paly locks of gold : 44 Why smite," he asked in sad surprise, 44 The fair, the old ? " Yet louder rang the Strong One's...
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Poetical Works, Volume 2

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1869 - 406 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept, to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, " Why smite," he asked in sad surprise, O'erhung with paly locks of gold :^ « The fair, the old ?...
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Wellman's Miscellany, Volumes 1-4

1870
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept, to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised...smite," he asked in sad surprise, " The fair, the old i" Yet louder rang the Strong One's stroke, Yet nearer flashed his axe's gleam; Shuddering and sick...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...blind, Groped for his old aeeustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrowu. is feet to the foe ! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to Heaven Hashed his axe's gleam ; Shuddering and sick of heart I woke, As from a dream. I looked : aside the...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood ; Deser O'ei-hung with paly locks of gold, — • " Why smite," he asked in sad surprise, "The fair, the old?"...
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American poems, selected and ed. by W.M. Rossetti

American poems, William Michael Rossetti - American poetry - 1873 - 556 pages
...Grey-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised...dust-cloud rolled, — The Waster seemed the Builder too ; Up-springing from the ruined Old I saw the New. 'T\vas but the ruin of the bad, — The wasting of...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised...the old ?" Yet louder rang the Strong One's stroke, 98 THE PRISONER FOR DEBT. I looked : aside the dust-cloud rolled, — The Waster seemed the Builder...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1873 - 730 pages
...Gray-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped lor his old, accustom'd stone, Lean'd on his staff, and wept, to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, O'crhung with paly locks of gold : " Why smite," be asked in sad surprise, •• The fair, the old...
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Cassell's illustrated readings, Volume 2; Volume 67

Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...Grey-bearded Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustom'd stone, Lean'd on hii staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised...Yet louder rang the strong one's stroke ; Yet nearer flash'd his axe's gleam. Shuddering and sick of heart, I woke As from a dream. I look'd : aside the...
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