 HE clasps the crag with crooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.  Report of the Board of Education - Page 249by Connecticut. State Board of Education - 1886Full view - About this book
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