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... Night broods round , a wall of darkness , such as moonbeams cannot scale , And the blessed stars are blunted like a shaft from coat of in mail . B Thirteen summers have waved round us , thirteen winters shower'd THE TWO BROTHERS.
... Night broods round , a wall of darkness , such as moonbeams cannot scale , And the blessed stars are blunted like a shaft from coat of in mail . B Thirteen summers have waved round us , thirteen winters shower'd THE TWO BROTHERS.
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... darkness on our eyelids weighing — darkness that is felt . Oh , the memory of that midnight , spectre - like , within me sleeps ; If I only gaze , it rises dimly from my spirit's deeps- Rises with the sere elm forests struck by fitful ...
... darkness on our eyelids weighing — darkness that is felt . Oh , the memory of that midnight , spectre - like , within me sleeps ; If I only gaze , it rises dimly from my spirit's deeps- Rises with the sere elm forests struck by fitful ...
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... life's exuberant mirth . But I must not linger , brother , on the brightness of thy track , When dark spectres round mine own with spells are whisper- ing me back . List ! I do not wish that others should partake THE TWO BROTHERS .
... life's exuberant mirth . But I must not linger , brother , on the brightness of thy track , When dark spectres round mine own with spells are whisper- ing me back . List ! I do not wish that others should partake THE TWO BROTHERS .
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... 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.
... 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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... dark of darkness o'er them closed for ever far and wide , 2 Woe was me ! for in that midnight I could neither pray nor weep- Had I pray'd an Ear was open , and an Eye that could not sleep . But when all without was desert , and wild ...
... dark of darkness o'er them closed for ever far and wide , 2 Woe was me ! for in that midnight I could neither pray nor weep- Had I pray'd an Ear was open , and an Eye that could not sleep . But when all without was desert , and wild ...
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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.