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" The sea-snatched isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant bark ? There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the... "
A Glance at the Physical Sciences, Or, The Wonders of Nature, in Earth, Air ... - Page 278
by Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1852 - 352 pages
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts ..., Volume 6

1835 - 426 pages
...billows dark, The wrecking reef for the gallant hark? There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Alid the blossomed sweets that the valleys yield; There...serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up ; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup ; There are foes that watch for his cradle breath, Aud why need ye...
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Philadelphia Monthly Magazine, Volume 2

1828 - 332 pages
...isle is the home of men, And mountains exalt where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant, 'neath the billows dark, The wrecking reef for the gallant...There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossom'd sweets that the valleys yield ; There are serpents to coil ere the flowers are up ; There's...
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The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Xixth Century

Lyre - 1830 - 396 pages
...sea-snatch'd isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. Kut why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant...There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossom 'd sweets that the valleys yield ; There are serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up ; There's...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...sea-snatched isle is the home of And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant...serpents to coil ere the flowers are up: There's a poison drop in man's purest cup; There are foes that watch for his cradle breath, And why need ye sow...
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The First-class Reader: A Selection for Exercises in Reading : from Standard ...

Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 pages
...sea-snatched isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant...There are serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up; There 'sa poison drop in man's purest cup; There are foes that watch for his cradle breath, And why...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1833 - 578 pages
...isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. ' But why do ye plant, 'neath the billows dark, The wrecking reef for the gallant...There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossom'd sweets that the valleys yield ; There are serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up; There...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 10; Volume 58

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1833 - 690 pages
...isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. ' But why do ye plant, 'neath the billows dark, The wrecking reef for the gallant...There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossom'd sweets that the valleys yield ; There are serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up ; There...
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Poems

Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1834 - 316 pages
...sea-snatched isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant...man's purest cup, There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death •! With mouldering bones the deeps are white,...
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Selections from the American Poets: With Some Introductory Remarks

1834 - 402 pages
...sea-snatch'd isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant...There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossom'd sweets that the valleys yield ; There are serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up ; There's...
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The Reader and Speaker: Containing Lessons for Rhetorical Reading and ...

Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 pages
...sea-snatched isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But why do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant...serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up ; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup ; There are foes that watch for his cradle breath, And why need ye...
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