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... tell thee I can better tell at night : And their faint dun glow will glimmer till , perchance , my tale is done . List ! —that dull and heavy sound - it is the church - bell pealing ' one . ' Strangely through the sere elm forests come ...
... tell thee I can better tell at night : And their faint dun glow will glimmer till , perchance , my tale is done . List ! —that dull and heavy sound - it is the church - bell pealing ' one . ' Strangely through the sere elm forests come ...
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... 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 spirits ( well she knew them ) , I and thou ; Life and light and ...
... 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 spirits ( well she knew them ) , I and thou ; Life and light and ...
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... 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 hopes and feelings , underneath blue ...
... 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 hopes and feelings , underneath blue ...
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... tell thee after this of inno- cence ? Thou wilt mock me - brother , brother - I can never tell thee - hence ! See ! the embers all have smoulder'd - see their faint light dying wanes : Brother , look , a star is trembling through the ...
... tell thee after this of inno- cence ? Thou wilt mock me - brother , brother - I can never tell thee - hence ! See ! the embers all have smoulder'd - see their faint light dying wanes : Brother , look , a star is trembling through the ...
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And Other Poems Edward Henry Bickersteth. I can tell thee now , -for blessed are to me the thoughts that rise With those silent pilgrims yonder wending through the silent skies . Even thus amid the darkness , and the winds , the waves ...
And Other Poems Edward Henry Bickersteth. I can tell thee now , -for blessed are to me the thoughts that rise With those silent pilgrims yonder wending through the silent skies . Even thus amid the darkness , and the winds , the waves ...
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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.