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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
Editor
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Fair
Fading
Sea
Seas
West
Palaces
Watches
Cloud
Shaft
Watch
Continents
Glows
Fire
Sunset
Alps
Come
Fairs
Yonder
Great
Clouds
Frail

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