The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged with Notes |
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Madam , I beg your pardon ! I think that you mean to be kind , But I cannot hear what you say for my Willy's voice in the wind The snow and the sky so bright - he used but to call in the dark , And he calls to me now from the church and ...
Madam , I beg your pardon ! I think that you mean to be kind , But I cannot hear what you say for my Willy's voice in the wind The snow and the sky so bright - he used but to call in the dark , And he calls to me now from the church and ...
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| Title | The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged with Notes Golden treasury series |
| Author | Francis Turner Palgrave |
| Editor | Francis Turner Palgrave |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, limited, 1900 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2006 |
| Length | 275 pages |
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