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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 22 THE AIR VOYAGE UP THE HUDSON He has flashed; he is gone: only fancy aids Our eyes where the haze grows hoarer: The Ages look up from the Palisades, That looked down on the Dutch explorer. But what of their dreams ? those gray steel hulks Deep-moored in the river below him, With the loins of a nation girt in their bulks ? In their iron hearts, do they know him ? Do their deadly engines twinge with a doubt, A dread of this thing ethereal, That hides in its plumes the earliest scout Of the armies and navies aerial ? And what of their hearts ? that human throng ? Do they hail in this creature regal The harbinger of dirge, or of song ? A vulture, or an eagle ? He tacks; he returns: the news is blown On the winds of a city's wonder: He comes, in the braying megaphone, He comes, on Manhattan's thunder; He looms once more by the swarming bluffs - A bird of marshes gigantic ? And slants on the slumbering mist, and luffs To his nest by the booming Atlantic. CHORAL SONG FOR THE NEW THEATRE' (Written to be sung to music from Gounod's Redemption.) Awake awake awake Spirits of Aspiration And hasten to renew Your ministering vows: For lo the Prince of Faery Returns within your walls, Back from his ancient bright dominions: Awake awake awake For he is crowned again. But who is he, the Prince of Faery ? Of Hellas he was god, a swan he was in Avon. But who is he, the Prince of Faery ? Of little children lord, of men and angels master: Within the human mind he rules the world. 1 Sung by members of the Metropolitan Opera Company, at the ceremony of the laying of the corner-stone of the New Theatre, New York, December 15, 1908, and also at the opening ceremonies, November 6, 1909. O...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217106139 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217106137 |
| Weight | 0.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 94 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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