| Hezekiah Butterworth - 1884 - 348 páginas
...was believed that he had gone into the swamp in search of his loved one, and had there perished : — "They made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true ; And she 's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles... | |
| Thomas W. Handford - 1885 - 456 páginas
...into that dreary wilderness, and had died of hunger, or been lost in some of its dreadful morasses." They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul...lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where all night long by the firefly lamp She paddles her white canoe. And her firefly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1887 - 232 páginas
...into that dreary wilderness, and had perished among its forest of foliage, or its dreadful morasses." "They made her a grave too cold and damp for a soul...long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe ! " Moore also, during his passage of the St. Lawrence from Kingston, pencilled the lines (nearly as... | |
| Albert Newton Raub - 1887 - 332 páginas
...Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream ; Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.—Barns. f 20. They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul...night long, by a firefly lamp, She paddles her white canoe.—Moore. 21. Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun! Oh, it was pitiful! Near... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1888 - 232 páginas
...into that dreary wilderness, and had perished among its forest of foliage, or its dreadful morasses." "They made her a grave too cold and damp for a soul...so warm and true ; And she's gone to the 'Lake of theDismal Swamp,' where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe ! " Moore... | |
| Cornelia Phillips Spencer - 1888 - 292 páginas
...to the Dismal Swamp, it was supposed he had wandered thither and perished in its dreadful morasses.] THEY made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul...long, by a firefly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds — Through many a fen where the serpent feeds, And man never trod... | |
| John Boyle O'Reilly - 1890 - 568 páginas
...wilderness and had died of hunger, or had been lost in some of its dreadful morasses." — Tradition. ' ' They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true, And she's gone to the Lake of ihe Dismal Swamp, Where all night long, by her fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. Her fire-fly... | |
| John Boyle O'Reilly - 1890 - 564 páginas
...been lost in some of its dreadful morasses." — Tradition. " They made her a grave too cold and clamp For a soul so warm and true, And she's gone to the...Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where all night long, by her fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. Her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle... | |
| Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1895 - 328 páginas
...by the legend, and set it thus to the music — let us not dare to say the jingle — of his verse : They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul...Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where all night long, by her fire-fly lamp She paddles her white canoe. 61 And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, Her paddle... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1895 - 838 páginas
...some of its dreadful morasses." — Anon. " La Poesie a ses monstres commela nature." D'ALEMBERT. " THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul so warm and true; " And she 's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp,1 " Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, " She paddles... | |
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