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... coming . Is such the sky that stretches o'er the world ? Fool , fool , -it cannot be - just close thine eye And open it anew , and o'er its sweep Will rise , in faëry pageantries of joy , Life - pictures diverse far : young pleasure's ...
... coming . Is such the sky that stretches o'er the world ? Fool , fool , -it cannot be - just close thine eye And open it anew , and o'er its sweep Will rise , in faëry pageantries of joy , Life - pictures diverse far : young pleasure's ...
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... coming carnival , Heard it and trembled ― dark , mysterious sign Of that predicted Conqueror Divine , Whose advent was the token Of chains and fetters broken , Who , buried like that seer beneath the earth , Should mar the triumph of ...
... coming carnival , Heard it and trembled ― dark , mysterious sign Of that predicted Conqueror Divine , Whose advent was the token Of chains and fetters broken , Who , buried like that seer beneath the earth , Should mar the triumph of ...
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... noon - day sky : Heaven's thunders murmur'd coming wrath . But hark ! From that great city one repentant cry Rose like a fragrant incense - cloud on high . And mercy pleaded and prevail'd : it pass'd , And NINEVEH . 81.
... noon - day sky : Heaven's thunders murmur'd coming wrath . But hark ! From that great city one repentant cry Rose like a fragrant incense - cloud on high . And mercy pleaded and prevail'd : it pass'd , And NINEVEH . 81.
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... coming . Zion's virgin young Already hath thy funeral dirges sung : Already Israel's bard has seized the lyre ' , The awful lyre of prophecy , and flung These scathing words of heaven's avenging ire , To brand thy withering pride with ...
... coming . Zion's virgin young Already hath thy funeral dirges sung : Already Israel's bard has seized the lyre ' , The awful lyre of prophecy , and flung These scathing words of heaven's avenging ire , To brand thy withering pride with ...
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... - Where is Nineveh ? XXVIII . It is the evening of the world . The sun Casts level shadows o'er its restless tide ; And though dense clouds , before his race be run , Betoken coming tempest , in their pride The nations still 88 NINEVEH .
... - Where is Nineveh ? XXVIII . It is the evening of the world . The sun Casts level shadows o'er its restless tide ; And though dense clouds , before his race be run , Betoken coming tempest , in their pride The nations still 88 NINEVEH .
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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.