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" And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; "We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. "Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 565
1834
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...They are very numeroui, and there ia no climate or alt. ment without one or more. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root ;...speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. lHuujK Ah ! well-a-day ! what evil looks diet''™™ Had I from old and young ! tZwthe" Instead of...
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The Boy's Second Help to Reading: A Selection of Choice Passages from ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...plagued us so; Nine fathom deep ne had followed us Prom the land of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought, "Was withered at the root;...speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. THE BIITIIE OF THE ATfCIEIfT MAEINE3. 169 All ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young...
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The book of celebrated poems

Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...had follow'd us From the land of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was wither'd at the root; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the cross, the albatross About...
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Gleanings from the Poets, for Home and School

American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...coaiuhed. The; are very numerous, and there is no climate or element without one or more. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root ;...";.'!",•'„• Ah ! well-a-day ! what evil looks si.'™..'* Had I from old and young ! ° Instead of the cross, the albatross .h« About my neck was...
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...They are very numerous, and there is no climate or el«« ment without one or more. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root ;...speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot, mateffn Ah ! well-a-day ! what evil looks £.e£e£" Had I from old and young ! !h°ow/hen Instead...
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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 478 pages
...followed us \. From the land of mist and snow. ^-. r And every tongue through utter drought / Wasjrjther'd at the root ; We could not speak no more than if We had been choked with soot. Instead of the cross the albatross About my neck was hung. (j PART III. / " So pass'da weary time ;...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...From the land of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root ; Wo could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the cross, the albatross About...
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The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays ...

John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...plagued us so ; Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root ;...About my neck was hung." The sufferings that ensue are painted with a power far transcending that of any other poet who has adventured on the horrors of thirst,...
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Essays critical and imaginative

John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...plagued us so ; Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root ;...About my neck was hung." The sufferings that ensue are painted with a power far transcending that of any other poet who has adventured on the horrors of thirst,...
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The works of professor Wilson, ed. by prof. Ferrier, Volume 7

John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...plagued us so ; Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root ;...cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung." The Bufferings that ensue are painted with a power far transcending that of any other poet who has adventured...
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