A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate... Littell's Living Age - Page 4011849Full view - About this book
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 pages
...see I was the mate of misery; But then by dull degrees came back My senses to their wonted track, 260 I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round...saw the glimmer of the sun Creeping as it before had dont. But through the crevice where it came 265 That bird was perched, as fond and tame, And tamer... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery; But itative and feeling mind to seek after them, or to notice them 160 I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the sun... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 530 pages
...255 Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery; But then by dull degrees came back My senses to their wonted track, 260 I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the sun... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pages
...Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery ; But then by dull degrees came back My senses to their wonted track, 260 I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the sun... | |
| George E. Teter - 1918 - 456 pages
...Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery ; But then by dull degrees came back My senses to their...bird was perched, as fond and tame, And tamer than upon the tree; A lovely bird, with azure wings, And song that said a thousand things, And seemed to... | |
| 1918 - 2062 pages
...eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery; y of lip and chin, — Clerks that the Home-Guard upon the tree — A lovely bird, with azure wings, And song that said a thousand things, And seemed... | |
| George E. Teter - 1918 - 464 pages
...eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery; But then by dull degrees came back My senses to their...glimmer of the sun Creeping as it before had done, B .t through the crevice where it came That bird was perched, as fond and tame, And tamer than upon... | |
| Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 424 pages
...And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery; But then by dull degrees came back 20 My senses to their wonted track; I saw the dungeon...glimmer of the sun Creeping as it before had done, 25 And tamer than upon the tree; A lovely bird, with azure wings, And song that said a thousand things,... | |
| Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 488 pages
...And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery ; But then by dull degrees came back 20 My senses to their wonted track ; I saw the dungeon...glimmer of the sun Creeping as it before had done, 25 And tamer than upon the tree ; A lovely bird, with azure wings, And song that said a thousand things,... | |
| Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 424 pages
...floor Close slowly round me as before ; I saw the glimmer of the sun Creeping as it before had done, 25 But through the crevice where it came That bird was perched, as fond and tame, And tamer than upon the tree ; A lovely bird, with azure wings, And song that said a thousand things, And seemed to... | |
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