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O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers: whence are thy beams, O sun, thy everlasting light?
Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders
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O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light?
The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard
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O Thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers, whence are thy beams, O Sun, thy everlasting light!
Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter
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Grey dawn, why, O unloving, rollest thou now so slow round the world, since another is shrouded and warm by Demo? but when I held her delicate form to my breast, swift thou wert upon us, shedding on me a light that seemed to rejoice in my grief.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902
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Thou rollest up into the horizon, thou settest the light above the darkness, thou illuminest [the Two Lands] with the light from thy two plumes, thou floodest the Two Lands like the Disk at the beginning of the dawn.
Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations 1895
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The wide heavens are thy pathway: thou rollest o'er them as a chariot.
Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Which recalls the address to the sun in Carthous -- "O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers," -- perhaps the most hackneyed
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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Alas, how, in thy softhung Longacre vehicle, of polished leather to the bodily eye, of red-tape philosophy, of expediencies, clubroom moralities, Parliamentary majorities to the mind's eye, thou beautifully rollest: But knowest thou whitherward?
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885
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"Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now."
Steep Trails John Muir 1876
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'O thou! what is it with thee, that thou rollest as one reft of his wits?'
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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