Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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No nightly trance or breathed spell

Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 173.

From haunted spring and dale

Edg'd with poplar pale

The parting genius is with sighing sent.

Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 184.

Peor and Baälim

Forsake their temples dim.

Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 197.