The High School Prize SpeakerWilliam Leonard Snow Houghton Mifflin, 1916 - 240 pages |
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Page 137 - And to the barge they came. There those three Queens Put forth their hands, and took the King, and wept. But she, that rose the tallest of them all And fairest, laid his head upon her lap, And loosed the...
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