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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TEMPTATION, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY
First Line: The floods arise -- o god! The floods arise
Last Line: The frightful siege of their unhallowed hands.
Subject(s): Floods
First Line: The floods arise -- o god! The floods arise
Last Line: The frightful siege of their unhallowed hands.
Subject(s): Floods
THE floods arise—O God! the floods arise,
And wash my slain from out their burial sands;
O hide me from the onslaught of their eyes,
The frightful siege of their unhallowed hands.
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