Open-air Studies: An Introduction to Geology Out-of-doors

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C. Griffin, limited, 1895 - 322 Seiten

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Seite 79 - Of lightning through the tempest ; — thou dost lie, — Thy giant brood of pines around thee clinging, Children of elder time, in whose devotion The chainless winds still come and ever came To drink their odours, and their mighty swinging To hear, an old and solemn harmony ; Thine earthly rainbows stretched across...
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