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Page 116
... trees is covered with yellow fruit . Narrow paths lead southwards to a hill near the top of which is an uneven plateau , some half - hour's journey in circumference , overgrown , like the hill itself , with wild trees and bushes . It ...
... trees is covered with yellow fruit . Narrow paths lead southwards to a hill near the top of which is an uneven plateau , some half - hour's journey in circumference , overgrown , like the hill itself , with wild trees and bushes . It ...
Page 187
... Tree of knowledge grew fast by , Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill . Southward through Eden went a River ... Trees wept odorous Gumms and Balme , Others whose fruit burnisht with Golden Rinde Hung amiable , Hesperian Fables ...
... Tree of knowledge grew fast by , Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill . Southward through Eden went a River ... Trees wept odorous Gumms and Balme , Others whose fruit burnisht with Golden Rinde Hung amiable , Hesperian Fables ...
Page 218
... trees and shrubs . But one could make out , with the plan , how it had been , and where the different fortresses and gates had stood , and there was the palace banqueting hall , roofless now , and grown with long grass and fig trees ...
... trees and shrubs . But one could make out , with the plan , how it had been , and where the different fortresses and gates had stood , and there was the palace banqueting hall , roofless now , and grown with long grass and fig trees ...
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