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... one tenderer than the dove ? Oh , ye grew for five brief summers there together , side by side , Till she stood in beauty by thee , thine own loving lovely Blushing , trembling , till the vow to love thee bride ; THE TWO BROTHERS .
... one tenderer than the dove ? Oh , ye grew for five brief summers there together , side by side , Till she stood in beauty by thee , thine own loving lovely Blushing , trembling , till the vow to love thee bride ; THE TWO BROTHERS .
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... beauty like the light . Ah ! how beautiful life's ocean seem'd that gentle cloudless noon , Like a moonlight sea that slumbers underneath the summer moon , When the stars steal hearts responsive to their own wild eloquence , And a ...
... beauty like the light . Ah ! how beautiful life's ocean seem'd that gentle cloudless noon , Like a moonlight sea that slumbers underneath the summer moon , When the stars steal hearts responsive to their own wild eloquence , And a ...
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... beauty there ' mid everlasting things ; Never pausing , resting never on its flight intensely keen , Deeming it would touch the boundary of that dark - blue vault serene . If I gazed below , the mists were wrapping all THE TWO BROTHERS . 9.
... beauty there ' mid everlasting things ; Never pausing , resting never on its flight intensely keen , Deeming it would touch the boundary of that dark - blue vault serene . If I gazed below , the mists were wrapping all THE TWO BROTHERS . 9.
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... beauty , human love or love of God- Not a gleam to point the pathway of return the way I trode : - But the meteors , I had follow'd , sicken'd one by one and died , And the dark of darkness o'er them closed for ever far and wide , 2 Woe ...
... beauty , human love or love of God- Not a gleam to point the pathway of return the way I trode : - But the meteors , I had follow'd , sicken'd one by one and died , And the dark of darkness o'er them closed for ever far and wide , 2 Woe ...
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... beauty of her sylph - like form and face , Such as sculptor's hands , entranced all the while , might love to trace ? Of her soft dark tresses shading the swift blushes of her cheek ? Of her clear and thoughtful forehead , sunlit like a ...
... beauty of her sylph - like form and face , Such as sculptor's hands , entranced all the while , might love to trace ? Of her soft dark tresses shading the swift blushes of her cheek ? Of her clear and thoughtful forehead , sunlit like a ...
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Page 253 - I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Page 294 - After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful, and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.