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    The birds chaunt melody on every bush,
    The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,
    The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,
    And make a checkered shadow on the ground;
    Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,
    And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,
    Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,
    As if a double hunt were heard at once,
    Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise;
    And after conflict such as was supposed
    The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed,
    When with a happy storm they were surprised,
    And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave,
    We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,
    Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,
    Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds
    Be unto us as is a nurse's song
    Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.

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Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance.
. . . .
And, when the echoes had read more

Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance.
. . . .
And, when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the
silence.

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Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, read more

Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.

by Lord Alfred Tennyson Found in: Echo Quotes,
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I heard . . .
. . . the great echo flap
And buffet round the hills read more

I heard . . .
. . . the great echo flap
And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.

by Lord Alfred Tennyson Found in: Echo Quotes,
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The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us
at the moment of the election, and in read more

The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us
at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest,
while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours,
has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we
pursue.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Shadows Quotes,
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Echo waits with art and care
And will the faults of song repair.

Echo waits with art and care
And will the faults of song repair.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Echo Quotes,
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(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

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Follow a shadow, it still flies you,
Seem to fly, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, read more

Follow a shadow, it still flies you,
Seem to fly, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?

by Ben Jonson Found in: Shadows Quotes,
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Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most
conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the read more

Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most
conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.

by Bayard Ruskin Found in: Shadows Quotes,
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Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow's bliss.

Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow's bliss.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Shadows Quotes,
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