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"Oh, hurrah! I can really see off to Mount Greylock old King Greylock even the steel tower upon it oh! so plainly," murmured the madcap in the Chair, and nestled triumphantly against its rocky back. "Greylock, cloud-girdled, from his purple throne, A shout of gladness sends, And up soft meadow slopes, a warbling tone, Of Housatonic blends."
The empty forms become nauseous in the midst of this honest and wholesome reality of out-of-doors. Hence the necessity of these quiet retreats in the forests, in the water-guarded islands, in the cloud-girdled mountains. Here the world is not seen or heard. Here the king may live with such approach to nature as his false and deformed education will allow.
The Israelites, at the foot of the cloud-girdled mount, whose fiery zone they were forbidden to pass, could scarcely have felt more awe and dread than I did, strange and weak as it may seem. I moved nearer, still more near, till my shadow fell upon him. Then he started and rose to his feet, and looked upon me, like one suddenly awakened from a deep sleep. "Gabriella!" he exclaimed. Oh!
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