Word: sway
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...from Watertown to the spot afterwards to be made famous by the great Taft, without entangling their oars, or rather paddles, in the frequent drawbridge. No gas-works as yet disturbed the sylvan freshness of the scene; horse-car tracks were unknown; the classic shades of Harvard held peaceful sway from their throne of elms to the hills beyond the meadows. Peelers were unknown; offenders against the peace feared rather a dignified reproof in the shape of a few lines of good old Anacreon, than the rubicund justice of a Portchuck beak. Even the mucker element (which we may consider...
Where soft and low the gentle branches sway...
...heart still owns her heroes' deathless sway...
Looks o'er the lands where once its lords held sway, - Sad, gloomy relic of a long-gone...