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Brightest and best of the sons of the morning , Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid ! Star of the East , the horizon adorning , Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid ! BISHOP HEBER . I felt little inclination to linger at ...
Brightest and best of the sons of the morning , Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid ! Star of the East , the horizon adorning , Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid ! BISHOP HEBER . I felt little inclination to linger at ...
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| Title | The Crescent and the Cross; Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Volumes 1-2 Library of choice reading The Crescent and the Cross; Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Bartholomew Elliott George Warburton |
| Author | Bartholomew Elliott George Warburton |
| Publisher | Wiley & Putnam, 1845 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 29 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 768 pages |
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