I heard, fear-stricken and amazed, My speech tongue-tied, my hair upraised. - John Conington

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I heard, fear-stricken and amazed, My speech tongue-tied, my hair upraised.

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John Conington (10 August 1825 – 23 October 1869) was an English classical scholar.

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