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3. "There was a youth, who, as with toil and travel, had grown quite weak and gray

Before his time.".

4. "Thou shoreless flood, which in thine ebb and flow,

Claspeth the limits of mortality."

5. "Pile high the pyre of expiation, now A forest's spoil of boughs."

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High and low, fast and slow,

My Last to my First go down,

And when once there, you may safely swear
That they get done pretty brown.

1. Curiosities old, so I'm told.

2. Driven from Norway by a Dane, A foreign dukedom he did gain.

3. A short and a long is of this the meed,

4. As you know if plays in this tongue you read.

5. Danger approaches! therefore she brings All her young family under her wings.

6. This enemy no mortal spares,
To try and stop it no man dares.

7. Hence you wonder what they are, Up above the world so far.

8. Bad is often better than none, When written of a well-loved son.

83.

One found on land, and one beneath the sea,
And yet in foreign tongue one name have we.

1. When o'er this you chance to roam,
Think of those you left at home.

2. He his country sees no more;
The Irish vote him quite a bore.

3. This is indeed a jot or tittle,
And often signifies a little.

4. I'm afloat, I'm afloat,

5. In a fisherman's boat.

84.

"A marriage was agreed upon between the prince, his son, and the youngest daughter of the Emperor."

1. "He was nightly wont to cross thy stream."

2. "I hold the world but as the world,

A stage where every man must play a part."

3. "The forest tomb had marred his glossy hair."

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4. "Thou dost float and run

Like an unbodied joy, whose race is just begun."

5. "I will not leave thee lonely with the dead. Let us depart together."

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85.

She the sacrifice awaiting,
Already round her crowd

The ministers of torture

And the weavers of her shroud.

1. This is to a master grand Given in an Eastern land.

2. A hopeless thing it is for you

To make this man believe 'tis true.

3. Now hangs unstrung upon the walls The harp that sounded through these halls. 4. Pull them together and send them along, They're all four active, young, and strong. 5. Back he fell from his seat at the gate, And met his well-deservèd fate.

6. Yes! by all means let us go, It's very beautiful, I know.

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