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Where the scarlet cressets o'erhang from the rowan trees;
AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901
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War's dread machines o'erhang thy threat'ning brow,
Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Daily they journey to the diitant clefts Of craggy rocks, where gloomy palms o'erhang The ancient wells, deep funk by toil immenfe.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
bilby commented on the word o'erhang
If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song
May hope, O pensive Eve, to soothe thine ear
Like thy own solemn springs,
Thy springs, and dying gales;
O Nymph reserved, while now the bright-hair'd sun
Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts,
With brede ethereal wove,
O'erhang his wavy bed;
- W. Collins, 'To Evening'.
August 11, 2008