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" That moss-covered vessel I hailed as a treasure ; For often at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And... "
A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with ... - Page 103
by George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 552 pages
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The Academician: Containing the Elements of ..., Volume 1, Issues 1-25

1820 - 436 pages
...ardent I seized it, with bauds that were glowinj, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell, That soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from Ihe w«U. The old oaken bucket,— the iron bound bucket— The moss covered bucket arose from the...
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Magazine of Wit and American Harmonist: Containing a Collection of the Most ...

1821 - 154 pages
...How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it tell, Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And...old oaken bucket — the iron-bound bucket — The moss covered bucket arose from the well. How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As pois'd...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 11

1822 - 496 pages
...wen. glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell ; Then soon, with the emblem of IrntJi overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from...moss-covered bucket, arose from the well. How sweet from the green.mossy brim to receive it, As poised on the enrb it inclined to my lips; Not a full blushiug goblet...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

1823 - 400 pages
...The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell; Then...moss-covered bucket, arose from the well. How sweet from the green-mossy brim to receive it, As poised on the curb it inclined to my lips ; Not a full blnshing...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...The purest and sweetest that nature can yield How ardent I seized It, with hands that were glowing. And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell ! Then...How sweet from the green, mossy brim to receive it, Aa, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips! Not a full, blushing goblet could tempt me to leave...
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The Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 pages
...as a treasure— How ardent I seized it with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell; Then soon, with the emblem of truth...with coolness, it rose from the well; The old oaken bucket—the iron-bound bucket— The moss covered bucket arose from the well. 3 How sweet from the...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 1

1834 - 438 pages
...seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell ; Then POOH, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping...it rose from the well ; The old oaken bucket, the irun-hotind bucket. The moss-covered bucket, arose from the well. How sweet from the green mossy brim...
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Selections from the American Poets: With Some Introductory Remarks

1834 - 406 pages
...nature ean yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quiek to the white pebbled bottom it fell ; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with eoolness, it rose from the well ; The old oaken bueket, the iron-bound bueket, The moM-eovered bueket...
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The Universal Songster and Museum of Mirth: A Collection of ..., Volume 2

1835 - 320 pages
...nature can yield; How ardent I si«z'd it with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell, Then soon with the emblem of truth...coolness it rose from the well. The old oaken bucket, &c. How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As pois'd on the cord, it inclin'd to my lips,...
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National Hymns, Original and Selected: For the Use of Those who are "slaves ...

Abner Kneeland - 1836 - 154 pages
...The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seiz'd it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell, Then...bucket, The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. 3 How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As poig'd on the curb, it inclin'd to my lips;...
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