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... flow'd : For when harsh unkindness pruned and stunted all affec- tion's shoots , Then perhaps the canker enter'd , festering at my being's roots : For with sickening heart I turn'd from human faces , as from blight , Since they never ...
... flow'd : For when harsh unkindness pruned and stunted all affec- tion's shoots , Then perhaps the canker enter'd , festering at my being's roots : For with sickening heart I turn'd from human faces , as from blight , Since they never ...
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... flow'd on and whisper'd ' twas the music of the spheres , Bidding me come up and follow to its own dear home on high , Maddening while it tranced my soul , and blinding while it lured mine eye ; Till I rear'd my adoration higher than ...
... flow'd on and whisper'd ' twas the music of the spheres , Bidding me come up and follow to its own dear home on high , Maddening while it tranced my soul , and blinding while it lured mine eye ; Till I rear'd my adoration higher than ...
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... sleep I slept : - But at length the spring was heal'd , and gentle tears began to flow , And One whisper'd , " I have suffer'd - I have borne thy load of woe ! " All the fabled lights of Reason seem'd like torch - THE TWO BROTHERS . 15.
... sleep I slept : - But at length the spring was heal'd , and gentle tears began to flow , And One whisper'd , " I have suffer'd - I have borne thy load of woe ! " All the fabled lights of Reason seem'd like torch - THE TWO BROTHERS . 15.
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... Flow'd a majestic river through the vale Of life ; and I was wandering by its banks , And often paused my footstep , often gazed Into what seem'd a nether sky , where heaven With its unfathomable mysteries , In characters of soften'd ...
... Flow'd a majestic river through the vale Of life ; and I was wandering by its banks , And often paused my footstep , often gazed Into what seem'd a nether sky , where heaven With its unfathomable mysteries , In characters of soften'd ...
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... Flow'd on apace with me life's early stream , And roughen'd as it flow'd : for vengeance fell On guilty and apostate Israel1 . And we , who sate beneath our household vine , Fled for long years before the Philistine , And groan'd to see ...
... Flow'd on apace with me life's early stream , And roughen'd as it flow'd : for vengeance fell On guilty and apostate Israel1 . And we , who sate beneath our household vine , Fled for long years before the Philistine , And groan'd to see ...
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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.