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" Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap 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 I... "
A Library of American Literature... - Page 30
by Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889
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Annals of the Grand Lodge of Iowa, Volume 17

Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1901 - 788 pages
...sacred precincts of the heart of each one of you there sings the song of the poet who said: "Build thee more stately mansions, O, my soul, As the swift seasons roll. Let each new temple, nobler than the last. Shut tbee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 pages
...was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Ita irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed !...As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past ! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till...
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Songs in Many Keys

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 326 pages
...summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming...As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past ! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till...
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Songs in Many Keys

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 328 pages
...cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread...As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past ! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, THE...
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Nineteen Beautiful Years; Or, Sketches of a Girl's Life

Frances Elizabeth Willard - 1864 - 268 pages
...will not fret about the future, but will try now to do with my might whatever is in my power. " Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past ! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shot thce from heaven with a dome more vast, Till...
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Standard Fifth Reader, Part 2

Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: v. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till...
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The Garland of Poetry for the Young: A Selection in Four Parts

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn ! Prom thy dead lips a clearer note is borne Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn ! "While...As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past I Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till...
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The Garland of Poetry for the Young: A Selection in Four Parts, Volumes 1-2

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 pages
...lap, forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note is borne Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn I While on mine ear it rings Through the deep caves...As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past I Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till...
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Our Dumb Animals

1889 - 226 pages
...drove on. If that horse was not intelligent, what was he?— Salem Evening Nevis. EXCELSIOR. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till...
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Memoir of James P. Walker

James Perkins Walker - 1869 - 286 pages
...Holmes, in his poem on the Nautilus ; and I wish I could bring it home to every one of you : — " Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ; Leave thy low-vaulted past, Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till...
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