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Thro' thousand ages hath thy childhood run: On timeless ruin hath thy glory been: From the forgotten night of loves fordone Thou risest in the dawn of hopes unseen.

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

For there, with bodily anguish keen, With Indian heats at last fordone, With public toil and private teen— Thou sank'st, alone.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

And now that gentle lord was all fordone with sweat and toil, he and his charger; and so weary were they that scarcely could they any longer breathe.'

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington

Who should have Priam's wealthy substance won, If watery Thetis had her child fordone?

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Horses alike and riders were travel-tainted and fordone.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown