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...powerful and elevated ; the third has all the melody and solemnity of a requiem. " It was a.stately convent, with its old and lofty walls. And gardens...where soft the footstep falls ; And o'er the antique dial^itooea the creeping shadow past, Arid, all around, the noonday sun a drowsy radiance cast. No...

...picturesque, but more powerful and elevated ; the third has all the melody and solemnity of a requiem. * It was a stately convent, with its old and lofty walls,...with their broad green walks, where soft the footstep tails ; And o'er the antique dial-stones the creeping shadow past, And, all around, the noonday sun...

...picturesque, but more powerful and elevated ; the third has all the melody and solemnity of a requiem. '• It was a stately convent, with its old and lofty walls,...gardens with their broad green walks, where soft the footAtep falls ; And o'er the antique dial-stones the creeping shadow past, A nd, all around, the noonday...

...into other years, and lo ! in bright array, I saw, as in a dream, the forms of ages pass'd away. It was a stately convent, with its old and lofty walls,...with their broad green walks, where soft the footstep And o'er the antique dial-stones the creeping shadow pass'd, [falls ; And all around the noon-day sun...

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...MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. IT was a stately eonvent, with its old and lofty walle, And gardens with their green walks, where soft the footstep falls And o'er the antique dial-stones the ereeping shadow past, And all around the noon-day sun a dreamy radianee east ; No sound of busy life...

...array 1 saw, as in a dream, the form of ages pass'd away. It was in a stately convent with its hoar and lofty walls, And gardens with their broad green walks where soft the footstep falls ; And there five noble maidens sat beneath the hawthorn trees, In that first budding spring of youth when...

...array 1 saw, as in a dream, the form of ages pass'd away. It was in a stately convent with ita hoar and lofty walls, And gardens with their broad green walks where soft the footstep falls ; And there five noble maidens sat beneath the hawthorn trees, In that first budding spring of youth when...

...into other years, and lo ! in bright array, I saw, as in a dream, the forms of ages pass'd away. It was a stately convent, with its old and lofty walls,...walks, where soft the footstep falls ; * * * * * And there five noble maidens sat, beneath the orchard trees, In that first budding spring of youth, when...