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... Or gather rushes to make many a ring For thy long fingers ; tell thee tales of love , How the pale Phoebe , hunting in a grove , First saw the boy Endymion , from whose eyes She took eternal fire that never dies ; How she convey'd ...
... Or gather rushes to make many a ring For thy long fingers ; tell thee tales of love , How the pale Phoebe , hunting in a grove , First saw the boy Endymion , from whose eyes She took eternal fire that never dies ; How she convey'd ...
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| Title | Selected Essays Issue 234 of The Riverside literature series |
| Editor | Claude Moore Fuess |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1914 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Apr 2007 |
| Length | 219 pages |
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