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... hand of each of us a gentler lovelier angel hung . Often since I've mused , my brother , when my heart was rent , if this Were a heaven - sent dream , prophetic of a far - off home of bliss , Or a beautiful life - picture by affection's ...
... hand of each of us a gentler lovelier angel hung . Often since I've mused , my brother , when my heart was rent , if this Were a heaven - sent dream , prophetic of a far - off home of bliss , Or a beautiful life - picture by affection's ...
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... hand . I , too , have a tale to tell thee ( would that it may end in light ) , Though a tale of sin and sorrow , I can better tell at night . Who could speak of sad hearts broken by himself , of tear- drown'd eyes , And of wither'd ...
... hand . I , too , have a tale to tell thee ( would that it may end in light ) , Though a tale of sin and sorrow , I can better tell at night . Who could speak of sad hearts broken by himself , of tear- drown'd eyes , And of wither'd ...
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... Hand in hand our desolate home ; though desolate , ours , alas , no more . We were parted - each alone , ' mid stranger hearts and faces strange : Dreary seem'd the waste of lifetime , like a barren shore , to range . But a gentle eye ...
... Hand in hand our desolate home ; though desolate , ours , alas , no more . We were parted - each alone , ' mid stranger hearts and faces strange : Dreary seem'd the waste of lifetime , like a barren shore , to range . But a gentle eye ...
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... hands , entranced all the while , might love to trace ? Of her soft dark tresses shading the swift blushes of her cheek ? Of her clear and thoughtful forehead , sunlit like a cloudland peak ? Of her gentle heaving bosom , heaving o'er ...
... hands , entranced all the while , might love to trace ? Of her soft dark tresses shading the swift blushes of her cheek ? Of her clear and thoughtful forehead , sunlit like a cloudland peak ? Of her gentle heaving bosom , heaving o'er ...
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... Him , with energies Lent by despair - the only anchor left ; If that could fail , all others were but straws . Yet , clinging there , a voice within thee tells , That cannot fail thee : ' tis thy Father's hand THE THINGS THAT ARE . 29 29.
... Him , with energies Lent by despair - the only anchor left ; If that could fail , all others were but straws . Yet , clinging there , a voice within thee tells , That cannot fail thee : ' tis thy Father's hand THE THINGS THAT ARE . 29 29.
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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.