Life in Sweden: With Excursions in Norway and Denmark |
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What a world of merriment their melody foretells ! How they tinkle , tinkle , tinkle ,
In the icy air of night ! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens , seem to
twinkle With a christaline delight , Keeping time , time , time , In a sort of Runic ...
What a world of merriment their melody foretells ! How they tinkle , tinkle , tinkle ,
In the icy air of night ! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens , seem to
twinkle With a christaline delight , Keeping time , time , time , In a sort of Runic ...
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Page 301 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 336 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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| Title | Life in Sweden: With Excursions in Norway and Denmark Volume 2 of Life in Sweden; with excursions in Norway and Denmark, Selina Bunbury |
| Author | Selina Bunbury |
| Publisher | Hurst and Blackett, 1853 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 14 Jun 2006 |
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