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" Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home,... "
American Classics for Seventh and Eighth Grade Reading: With Biographical ... - Page 194
by Hanson Hart Webster - 1905 - 437 pages
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 pages
...revealed, — Ita irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral...forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn ! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought...
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The Autocrat of the breakfast table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...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...Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no man Thinks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 6; Volume 27

1858 - 572 pages
...build year after year a new chamber to the spiral shell they occupy, and thus moralizes upon it — "Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,...forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! 1858.] [DECEMBER 1858. '- Build thcc more stately mansions,...
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A Compendium of American Literature: Chronologically Arranged, with ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral...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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Songs in Many Keys

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 328 pages
...wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral...forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn ! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought...
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A compendium of American literature, arranged by C.D. Cleveland. Stereotyped ed

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...reveal'd, — Its iris'd ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unseal'd ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral...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
...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, as the spiral...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 - 828 pages
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