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Ah, but the way is so long! Years they have been in the wild! Sore thirst plagues them, the rocks, Rising all round, overawe; Factions divide them; their host Threatens to break, to dissolve. Ah, keep, keep them combined!

Camp-fires and Guide-posts: A Book of Essays and Excursions - Page 15
by Henry Van Dyke - 1921 - 316 pages
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Relfe brothers' model reading-books, in prose and verse, ed., with ..., Volume 6

Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 488 pages

...lost — Yours is the praise, if mankind Hath not as yet in its march Fainted, and fallen, and died ! See ! In the rocks of the world Marches the host of...feeble, wavering line. Where are they tending? — A God Marshall'd them, gave them their goal. — Ah, but the way is so long ! Years they have been in the...

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