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... grief must have her twilight wan- Moan , ye winds and woods and waves , and let the embers smoulder on . Gaze with me a moment down the billowy ocean of our life , Which with tears and fitful radiance seems mysteriously rife : In the ...
... grief must have her twilight wan- Moan , ye winds and woods and waves , and let the embers smoulder on . Gaze with me a moment down the billowy ocean of our life , Which with tears and fitful radiance seems mysteriously rife : In the ...
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... grief- Oh , she could not - but beside us wither'd , like a dying leaf : And , when leaves should die , in autumn , her the first of all the year , Laid we down , with sighs and weeping , on her cold sepul- chral bier ; And with ...
... grief- Oh , she could not - but beside us wither'd , like a dying leaf : And , when leaves should die , in autumn , her the first of all the year , Laid we down , with sighs and weeping , on her cold sepul- chral bier ; And with ...
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... grief and tears- Love is silent as the stars that love us in their voiceless spheres . Thus far only - she was ever , as she wander'd by my side , Like a rill of spirit - music flowing with ethereal tide Through my heart of hearts , and ...
... grief and tears- Love is silent as the stars that love us in their voiceless spheres . Thus far only - she was ever , as she wander'd by my side , Like a rill of spirit - music flowing with ethereal tide Through my heart of hearts , and ...
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... grief that in her bosom's depths was stirr'd . " Yes , mine own one , we are parted , such as time and space can part- " But for ever and for ever we are one in soul and heart : " This shall seal me thine " -and speaking nearer to my ...
... grief that in her bosom's depths was stirr'd . " Yes , mine own one , we are parted , such as time and space can part- " But for ever and for ever we are one in soul and heart : " This shall seal me thine " -and speaking nearer to my ...
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... midnight day . She was dead , I knew more surely than if I had seen her die , But grief clings to fragile anchors when the storms are hurtling by . So at morning set I forth my heartless hopeless way 22 THE TWO BROTHERS .
... midnight day . She was dead , I knew more surely than if I had seen her die , But grief clings to fragile anchors when the storms are hurtling by . So at morning set I forth my heartless hopeless way 22 THE TWO BROTHERS .
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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.