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... fear not , dear wanderer - storms must bend to His control . " Oh , that word ! I scarce had heard it since in music erst it fell From our sainted mother's lips , who breathed it as her last farewell . The dark thunder - clouds that ...
... fear not , dear wanderer - storms must bend to His control . " Oh , that word ! I scarce had heard it since in music erst it fell From our sainted mother's lips , who breathed it as her last farewell . The dark thunder - clouds that ...
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... that they shall be , and they are . Brother , I have told thee all my gloomy tale of fear and sin ; Ah , forgive me , for I could not die and keep it pent within- Since she went , this heart's beloved , thirteen dreary 24 THE TWO BROTHERS .
... that they shall be , and they are . Brother , I have told thee all my gloomy tale of fear and sin ; Ah , forgive me , for I could not die and keep it pent within- Since she went , this heart's beloved , thirteen dreary 24 THE TWO BROTHERS .
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... fear Of that which shall be , for the lightnings now Are all abroad upon the winds of night , Writing in vivid characters of flame , Truths words might never utter , truths intense , Of man's strange destiny and future worlds Prophetic ...
... fear Of that which shall be , for the lightnings now Are all abroad upon the winds of night , Writing in vivid characters of flame , Truths words might never utter , truths intense , Of man's strange destiny and future worlds Prophetic ...
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... fears , and ask'd me tauntingly , If I too smiled not . But a deeper voice Like that of thunder , utter'd answer - Peace ! There is no peace , and echoed still no ... fear of answer unforeseen , Ask'd thyself what 28 THE THINGS THAT ARE .
... fears , and ask'd me tauntingly , If I too smiled not . But a deeper voice Like that of thunder , utter'd answer - Peace ! There is no peace , and echoed still no ... fear of answer unforeseen , Ask'd thyself what 28 THE THINGS THAT ARE .
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... fear , and hope , and confidence , Thou castest all that storm - tost thing , thyself , Upon the blessed certainty of God : And clingest unto Him , with energies Lent by despair - the only anchor left ; If that could fail , all others ...
... fear , and hope , and confidence , Thou castest all that storm - tost thing , thyself , Upon the blessed certainty of God : And clingest unto Him , with energies Lent by despair - the only anchor left ; If that could fail , all others ...
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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.