silvan
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Here is tranquillity and silvan shade; For now, emerging from that waste of sand Which was my life, I reach a fruitful glade, A pool of water in a thirsty land.
From Mice & Other Poems by Gerald Bullett
I cannot let the tiny angel perish in the silvan gloom.
From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables
And various birds that roam the skies, And silvan creatures, met their eyes, As through the wood the chieftains sped, And followed where Sugríva led.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
This tyrant of the Scottish throne, 630 So faithless, and so ruthless known, Now hither comes; his end the same, The same pretext of silvan game.
From Lady of the Lake by William Vaughn Moody
Now, Bharat, lord of men be thou, And o'er Ayodhyá reign: The silvan world to me shall bow, King of the wild domain.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
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