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Page 249 - Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade.
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| Title | The Linesman: Or, Service in the Guards and the Line During England's Long Peace and Little Wars, Volume 3 Volume 3 of The Linesman, Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier The Linesman: Or, Service in the Guards and the Line During England's Long Peace and Little Wars, Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier |
| Author | Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier |
| Publisher | G. W. Hyde, 1856 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 11 Jul 2006 |
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