A Diary of Two Parliaments: The Disraeli Parliament, 1874-1880Cassell, 1885 |
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Page 244 - There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time ! a weary time ! How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld A something in the sky. At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed a mist ; It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist.