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... will , of fame ; Broke the next sad post a letter , edged with black , too surely told That his heart was still for ever , and his lips for ever cold . Then our mother - day by day she struggled with 6 THE TWO BROTHERS .
... will , of fame ; Broke the next sad post a letter , edged with black , too surely told That his heart was still for ever , and his lips for ever cold . Then our mother - day by day she struggled with 6 THE TWO BROTHERS .
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... 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 , and bitter were the first ...
... 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 , and bitter were the first ...
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... er me like a golden cloud ; As a moment on my bosom beat responsively her own , As her lips touch'd mine - and in a moment I was there- alone . Nothing saw I but the midnight's funeral blackness in my THE TWO BROTHERS . 21.
... er me like a golden cloud ; As a moment on my bosom beat responsively her own , As her lips touch'd mine - and in a moment I was there- alone . Nothing saw I but the midnight's funeral blackness in my THE TWO BROTHERS . 21.
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... lips re - echoed ever After that mighty pendulum of Fate Words that it utter'd palpably , -now - then : And then still follow'd now , and still the now Preceded then , eternally the same . Save when at 30 THE THINGS THAT ARE . 30.
... lips re - echoed ever After that mighty pendulum of Fate Words that it utter'd palpably , -now - then : And then still follow'd now , and still the now Preceded then , eternally the same . Save when at 30 THE THINGS THAT ARE . 30.
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... lips the blessed tidings fell " Of bliss to me , and hope to Israel : - " Lo , thou art barren , and thou bearest not ; “ Woman , bewail no more thy childless lot : " Behold thou shalt conceive and bear a child , " A Nazarite devoted ...
... lips the blessed tidings fell " Of bliss to me , and hope to Israel : - " Lo , thou art barren , and thou bearest not ; “ Woman , bewail no more thy childless lot : " Behold thou shalt conceive and bear a child , " A Nazarite devoted ...
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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.