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    The birds chaunt melody on every bush,
    The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,
    The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,
    And make a checkered shadow on the ground;
    Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,
    And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,
    Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,
    As if a double hunt were heard at once,
    Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise;
    And after conflict such as was supposed
    The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed,
    When with a happy storm they were surprised,
    And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave,
    We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,
    Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,
    Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds
    Be unto us as is a nurse's song
    Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.

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Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow's bliss.

Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow's bliss.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Shadows Quotes,
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How sweet the answer Echo makes
To music at night,
When, roused by lute or horn, she read more

How sweet the answer Echo makes
To music at night,
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away, o'er lawns and lakes,
Goes answering light.

by Thomas Moore Found in: Echo Quotes,
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Echo waits with art and care
And will the faults of song repair.

Echo waits with art and care
And will the faults of song repair.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Echo Quotes,
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I heard . . .
. . . the great echo flap
And buffet round the hills read more

I heard . . .
. . . the great echo flap
And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.

by Lord Alfred Tennyson Found in: Echo Quotes,
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Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far,
The voice divine of human loyalty.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far,
The voice divine of human loyalty.

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Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

by John Gay Found in: Shadows Quotes,
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I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my
youth, where are they?"--and an read more

I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my
youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?"

by Samuel Rogers Found in: Echo Quotes,
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The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us
at the moment of the election, and in read more

The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us
at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest,
while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours,
has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we
pursue.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Shadows Quotes,
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.

And more than echoes talk along the walls.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Echo Quotes,
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