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A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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Lyric Poetry

originally poems intended to be sung to the accompaniment of the harp or lyre; now poems emotions, as distinguished from epic or to the poet's individual thoughts and pecially poems expressing or referring to the poet's individual thoughts and emotions, as distinguished from epic or dramatic poetry, which external circumstances and events. hich is concerned with the little town of Lysbourg, in the de- tary of the Scheldt, rises in France near the little town of Lysbourg, in the department of Pas-de-Calais, and flows in *a N. E. direction, joining river was the scene of some of the most miles. During the World War the Lys joining the Scheldt at miles. During the World War the Lys river was the scene of some of the most terrific fighting between the Allies and the Germans.

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