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" I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls: and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely... "
The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal - Page 23
1783
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Gotik und Ruine in der englischen Dichtung des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts

Reinhard Haferkorn - Architecture, Gothic - 1924 - 230 pages
...from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook, Ihere, its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round ils head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house...
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Scotland in Music: A European Enthusiasm

Roger Fiske - Music - 1983 - 256 pages
...from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook, there, its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out, from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. - Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house...
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The Medieval Revival and Its Influence on the Romantic Movement

R. R. Agrawal - Art - 1990 - 316 pages
...Balclutha, but they were desolate .... The thistle shook, there, its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head."47 Also mark the solitary march of the sun amidst nature's...
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Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities ...

Francesco Orlando - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 520 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook, there, its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out, from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville

Kevin J. Hayes - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 124 pages
...its place, by the fall of the walls. - The thistle shook, there, its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out, from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round his head."36 In "The armies of the Wilderness," Melville imagined how...
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Strath-Clutha; or, The beauties of Clyde

John M. Leighton - 1840 - 422 pages
...from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook here its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows ; the rank grass of the walls waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Morna, silence is in the house...
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supplement to a manual of french composition

152 pages
...its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook, there, its lonely head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house...
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Pictures of Travel in Sweden: Among the Hartz Mountains, and in Switzerland ...

Hans Christian Andersen - Europe - 1871 - 314 pages
...Ossian meant this place when he sang, " The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows; the rank grass of the wall waved round its head." It was the last remains of the castle of Lauenborg. Gernrode...
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The Imperial Magazine;: And, Monthly Record of Religious ..., Volume 2

Samuel Drew - 1820 - 566 pages
...from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the w all waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of .Moina, silence is in the house...
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The Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral ..., Volume 2

1820 - 618 pages
...from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round bis head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, sileuce is in the house...
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