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Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Age: 70 †
Born: 1836
Born: November 2
Died: 1907
Died: March 19
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Journalist
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Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Watches
Cloud
Shaft
Watch
Continents
Glows
Fire
Sunset
Alps
Come
Fairs
Yonder
Great
Clouds
Frail
Fair
Fading
Sea
Seas
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Palaces

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