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... fell , And the melody of worship , words , she said , might never tell . Still the dream grew clear and clearer , softer still that music's tone , And she saw she was not kneeling in that glorious light alone : For beside her were two ...
... fell , And the melody of worship , words , she said , might never tell . Still the dream grew clear and clearer , softer still that music's tone , And she saw she was not kneeling in that glorious light alone : For beside her were two ...
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... fell on thee - seem'd it but a sister's love ? Pity's tears , that wept thy sorrows , from one tenderer than the dove ? Oh , ye grew for five brief summers there together , side by side , Till she stood in beauty by thee , thine own ...
... fell on thee - seem'd it but a sister's love ? Pity's tears , that wept thy sorrows , from one tenderer than the dove ? Oh , ye grew for five brief summers there together , side by side , Till she stood in beauty by thee , thine own ...
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... fell glancing down the mists of things that were . Surely ne'er o'er human bosom came love in such tempest - kind ; All my spirit's dark foundations heaved like waves beneath the wind . Often did I wrench the thought from out my bosom's ...
... fell glancing down the mists of things that were . Surely ne'er o'er human bosom came love in such tempest - kind ; All my spirit's dark foundations heaved like waves beneath the wind . Often did I wrench the thought from out my bosom's ...
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... fell From our sainted mother's lips , who breathed it as her last farewell . The dark thunder - clouds that long had risen with every rising day , Heard it , and were troubled - heard it , and began to break away . Bitter was the shame ...
... fell From our sainted mother's lips , who breathed it as her last farewell . The dark thunder - clouds that long had risen with every rising day , Heard it , and were troubled - heard it , and began to break away . Bitter was the shame ...
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... fell silently and fast ; If ye will , fond human frailty still victorious to the last : Tears - aye well she knew the iron soon would rive this quivering heart : Tears her home was far away , and I an exile , we must part . But methinks ...
... fell silently and fast ; If ye will , fond human frailty still victorious to the last : Tears - aye well she knew the iron soon would rive this quivering heart : Tears her home was far away , and I an exile , we must part . But methinks ...
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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.