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Synopsis
Excerpt from Lays and Legends of Ancient Greece
They looked on the vast Spread Earth, and saw The various-fashioned forms with awe Of green and creeping life, And said In every moving form With buoyant breath and pulses warm, In owery crowns, and veined leaves, A goddess dwells, whose bosom heaves With organising strife. They looked and saw the billowy ocean, With its boundless swell of sleepless motion.
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Synopsis
Excerpt from Lays and Legends of Ancient Greece
Muse of old Hellas, wake again Thou wert not born to die And mingle sweet the Classic strain With Gothic minstrelsy I feel a tingling in my veins, My heart is beating strong Let novel-writers count their gains, I'll pipe my Doric song. The wood has warblers great and small God scatters free; let carpers cavil
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.