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Page 104
... dungeon's spoil , And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd , and barr'd - forbidden fare ; But this was for my father's faith I suffer'd chains and courted death ; That father perish'd at the stake ...
... dungeon's spoil , And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd , and barr'd - forbidden fare ; But this was for my father's faith I suffer'd chains and courted death ; That father perish'd at the stake ...
Page 105
... dungeon cast , Of whom this wreck is left the last . There are seven pillars of Gothic mould , In Chillon's dungeons deep and old , There are seven columns , massy and grey Dim with a dull imprison'd ray , A sunbeam which hath lost its ...
... dungeon cast , Of whom this wreck is left the last . There are seven pillars of Gothic mould , In Chillon's dungeons deep and old , There are seven columns , massy and grey Dim with a dull imprison'd ray , A sunbeam which hath lost its ...
Page 106
... dungeon stone , A grating sound - not full and free As they of yore were wont to be : It might be fancy - but to me They never sounded like our own . I was the eldest of the three , And to uphold and cheer the rest I ought to do — and ...
... dungeon stone , A grating sound - not full and free As they of yore were wont to be : It might be fancy - but to me They never sounded like our own . I was the eldest of the three , And to uphold and cheer the rest I ought to do — and ...
Page 107
... dungeon was a gulf , And fetter'd feet the worst of ills . Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls ; A thousand feet in depth below Its massy waters meet and flow ; Thus much the fathom - line was sent From Chillon's snow - white battlement ...
... dungeon was a gulf , And fetter'd feet the worst of ills . Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls ; A thousand feet in depth below Its massy waters meet and flow ; Thus much the fathom - line was sent From Chillon's snow - white battlement ...
Page 109
... dungeon could not rest . I might have spared my idle prayer— They coldly laugh'd -— and laid him there : The flat and turfless earth above The being we so much did love ; His empty chain above it leant , Such murder's fitting monument ...
... dungeon could not rest . I might have spared my idle prayer— They coldly laugh'd -— and laid him there : The flat and turfless earth above The being we so much did love ; His empty chain above it leant , Such murder's fitting monument ...
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