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" And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped... "
Prescott's Paragon Reciter: An Unusually Attractive Collection of the Very ... - Page 34
1880 - 192 pages
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The Autocrat of the breakfast table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Itg irised ceiling runt, its sunless crypt unsealed 1 Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, lie left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built...
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A Compendium of American Literature: Chronologically Arranged, with ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretch'd in his lost-found home, and knew the oli no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

1861 - 460 pages
...after year behold the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left his past year's dwelling for the new; Stole, with soft...in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Canada when they lay at the bottom of the palaeozoic seas, it would have encountered multitudes of...
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A compendium of American literature, arranged by C.D. Cleveland. Stereotyped ed

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretch'd in his last-found home, and knew the <>'.! no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pages
...thee lics reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless erypt unseal 'd ! Year after year bcheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still,...Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Bnilt up its idle door, Stretch'd in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the...
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The Illustrated Natural History

John George Wood - 1863 - 840 pages
...the frail tenant shsiped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed — Its iriaed ceiling rent, iU sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the...lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the pnnt year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle...
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A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged: With ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 pages
...growing shell, Before thee lies reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretch'd in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought...
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The Congregational Review, Volume 6

1866 - 648 pages
...nautilus. Thus has a poet described it : " Year after year beheld the silent toil, • That spread its lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew, He left...year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step the shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last found home and knew the...
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The Boston Review, Volume 6

1866 - 650 pages
...of 362 The Art of Not Growing Old. [July, " Year after year beheld the silent toil, That spread its lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew, He left...year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step the shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last found home and knew the...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 27

1867 - 912 pages
...museum at Cambridge, has been placed in the choice cabinet of a poet's verse: " Still, as the spir.il grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new,...through. Built up its idle door. Stretched in his last-formed home, and knew the old DO more." " Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child...
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