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... thousand rats are coming this way , — The Lord forgive you for yesterday ! " " I'll go to my tower in the Rhine , " replied he ; " Tis the safest place in Germany , - The walls are high , and the shores are steep , And the tide is ...
... thousand rats are coming this way , — The Lord forgive you for yesterday ! " " I'll go to my tower in the Rhine , " replied he ; " Tis the safest place in Germany , - The walls are high , and the shores are steep , And the tide is ...
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... thousands up they crawl To the holes and the windows in the wall . Down on his knees the bishop fell , And faster and faster his beads did he tell , As louder and louder , drawing near , The saw of their teeth without he could hear ...
... thousands up they crawl To the holes and the windows in the wall . Down on his knees the bishop fell , And faster and faster his beads did he tell , As louder and louder , drawing near , The saw of their teeth without he could hear ...
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... thousands thronged to see Her mother on the gallows - tree ; And mocked the palsied limbs of age , That faltered on the fatal stairs , And wan lip trembling with its prayers ! Few questioned of the sorrowing child , Or , when they saw ...
... thousands thronged to see Her mother on the gallows - tree ; And mocked the palsied limbs of age , That faltered on the fatal stairs , And wan lip trembling with its prayers ! Few questioned of the sorrowing child , Or , when they saw ...
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... thousand swords to carry my bones away , " Belike the price of a jackal's meal were more than a thief could pay . " They will feed their horse on the standing crop , their men on the garnered grain , " The thatch of the byres will serve ...
... thousand swords to carry my bones away , " Belike the price of a jackal's meal were more than a thief could pay . " They will feed their horse on the standing crop , their men on the garnered grain , " The thatch of the byres will serve ...
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... thousand pound ! " And still as fast as he drew near , ' T was wonderful to view , How in a trice the turnpike men Their gates wide open threw . And now , as he went bowing down His reeking head full low , The bottles twain behind his ...
... thousand pound ! " And still as fast as he drew near , ' T was wonderful to view , How in a trice the turnpike men Their gates wide open threw . And now , as he went bowing down His reeking head full low , The bottles twain behind his ...
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