Related Clues:

• Long lead-in
• Long beginning
• ''Able was I ___ I saw Elba''
• Before, to Shelley
• In the time leading up to
• Earlier then
• "... __ vales and hills": Wordsworth
• "__ the land of the free ..."
• Blake's ''before''
• Long intro?
• 'But I heard him exclaim, ___ he …'
• '-- the land of the free ...'
• Above, to Blake
• 'For Lycidas is dead, dead ___ his prime': Milton
• Preposition before ''ramparts'' in an anthem