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... break away . Bitter was the shame , and bitter were the first tears that I wept ; - Frequent still wild night - mare visions broke upon the sleep I slept : - But at length the spring was heal'd , and gentle tears began to flow , And One ...
... break away . Bitter was the shame , and bitter were the first tears that I wept ; - Frequent still wild night - mare visions broke upon the sleep I slept : - But at length the spring was heal'd , and gentle tears began to flow , And One ...
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... in passionate tones , " Am I dreaming ? oh , beloved , gaze I on thee there awake ? " Wherefore weepest thou ? Speak - speak , for soon this bursting heart will break ! " Hast thou left me then for ever , here 20 THE TWO BROTHERS .
... in passionate tones , " Am I dreaming ? oh , beloved , gaze I on thee there awake ? " Wherefore weepest thou ? Speak - speak , for soon this bursting heart will break ! " Hast thou left me then for ever , here 20 THE TWO BROTHERS .
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... break , No far blue vista in the storm - tost drifts Of clouds , that gather blackness ever and aye Close round the wild horizon . If a star With trembling light , and that the light of tears , Gleams for a moment through the vault of ...
... break , No far blue vista in the storm - tost drifts Of clouds , that gather blackness ever and aye Close round the wild horizon . If a star With trembling light , and that the light of tears , Gleams for a moment through the vault of ...
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... centuries when I am gone , So spake Manoah of his only son . Yes , the dark clouds are breaking from my sight , My childhood floats before me : bathed in light Again I see my fond parental home Smiling in beauty SAMSON . 43 333.
... centuries when I am gone , So spake Manoah of his only son . Yes , the dark clouds are breaking from my sight , My childhood floats before me : bathed in light Again I see my fond parental home Smiling in beauty SAMSON . 43 333.
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... breaking heart these words found way , " My God .... " she struggled , but she could not pray- " My husband ” —and she shook in every limb , " He hath abandon'd God , and God abandon'd him . " But why retrace the story of his fall ...
... breaking heart these words found way , " My God .... " she struggled , but she could not pray- " My husband ” —and she shook in every limb , " He hath abandon'd God , and God abandon'd him . " But why retrace the story of his fall ...
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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.