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If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight.
If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight.
Approximate author period: c. 1801 AD · industrial
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- Sir Walter Scott
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- Approximate author period: c. 1801 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. Stanza 1.
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