Familiar Quotations

Chapter 424

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'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

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O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save.

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Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!

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O'er Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow, His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below.