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... cast far adrift Upon a desert ocean , with its void Crushes the heart : the spirit faints : till soon The stern conviction that thou canst not stay Heartless , and homeless , and companionless , That struggle unto death thou must for ...
... cast far adrift Upon a desert ocean , with its void Crushes the heart : the spirit faints : till soon The stern conviction that thou canst not stay Heartless , and homeless , and companionless , That struggle unto death thou must for ...
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... were ? And what he is , and where , and whence , and how ? So I , as panting to lay hold on that Which would not vanish at my touch like snow , D Struggled to cast myself from out myself In secret prayer THE THINGS THAT ARE . 333.
... were ? And what he is , and where , and whence , and how ? So I , as panting to lay hold on that Which would not vanish at my touch like snow , D Struggled to cast myself from out myself In secret prayer THE THINGS THAT ARE . 333.
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And Other Poems Edward Henry Bickersteth. Struggled to cast myself from out myself In secret prayer and agony of soul ; And though in darkness , onward felt my way , If haply I might find a rock whereon To stay my weary foot ; for all ...
And Other Poems Edward Henry Bickersteth. Struggled to cast myself from out myself In secret prayer and agony of soul ; And though in darkness , onward felt my way , If haply I might find a rock whereon To stay my weary foot ; for all ...
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... cast the burden of a host of cares Upon his father - heart , to feel thyself His child , and in that blessed privilege To ask his sympathy , his care , his love , And with a deep familiar earnestness Blend all thy thoughts 36 THE THINGS ...
... cast the burden of a host of cares Upon his father - heart , to feel thyself His child , and in that blessed privilege To ask his sympathy , his care , his love , And with a deep familiar earnestness Blend all thy thoughts 36 THE THINGS ...
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... cast His sorrows , and a Father's heart that glows For him , and yearns to greet him as a child . Entranced , imparadised in joy , I knelt There at the footstool of my Father's throne , My Father's and my God's , and from His smile ...
... cast His sorrows , and a Father's heart that glows For him , and yearns to greet him as a child . Entranced , imparadised in joy , I knelt There at the footstool of my Father's throne , My Father's and my God's , and from His smile ...
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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.