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The brooding East with awe beheld Her impious younger world. The Roman tempest swell’d and swell’d, And on her head was hurled. The East bowed low before the blast In patient, deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again.
The brooding East with awe beheld Her impious younger world. The Roman tempest swell’d and swell’d, And on her head was hurled. The East bowed low before the blast In patient, deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again.
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Matthew Arnold
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 152 · printed citation: M. Arnold (Obermann Once More) · compiler notes excluded
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