Mossdale: A Tale

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W.P. Nimmo, 1872 - 222 pages

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Page 45 - Long ago, In the deer-haunted forests of Maine, When upon mountain and plain Lay the snow, They fell, - those lordly pines! Those grand, majestic pines! Mid shouts and cheers The jaded steers, Panting beneath the goad, Dragged down the weary, winding road Those captive kings so straight and tall. To be shorn of their streaming hair, And, naked and bare, To feel the stress and the strain Of the wind and the reeling main, Whose roar Would remind them for evermore Of their native forests they should...
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