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Now a heavy cloud of sorrow Overshadows fair Lancaster, Shadows all the hillside city, In the swift-revolving cycle.

From The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap

But the doom Of the banned and stricken race Overshadows every place, Every hour.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma