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51. (1855) The Age of Fable; or, Stories of Gods and Heroes

Then seamen spread sails to the wind, and the trees were torn from the mountains to serve for keels to ships, and vex the face of ocean. […] Let thy berries still serve for memorials of our blood.” […] You will see the marks of the wheels, and they will serve to guide you. […] The following may serve as a specimen: — “They scarce had spoke, when, fair and soft, The roof began to mount aloft; Aloft rose every beam and rafter; The heavy wall climbed slowly after. […] That their foot-prints might not serve to show where they had been driven, he dragged them backward by their tails to his cave; so their tracks all seemed to show that they had gone in the opposite direction.

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