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When young and haply pure as thou , “ I look'd and pray'd like thee -- but now — ” He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and feeling , which had slept From boyhood's hour , that instant came Fresh o'er him , and he wept -- he wept ...
When young and haply pure as thou , “ I look'd and pray'd like thee -- but now — ” He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and feeling , which had slept From boyhood's hour , that instant came Fresh o'er him , and he wept -- he wept ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance Collection George Ross Roy Collections spéciales Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection |
| Author | Thomas Moore |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | M. Thomas, 1817 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 335 pages |
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