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... 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 distance , like the earliest flush of morning o'er the hills ...
... 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 distance , like the earliest flush of morning o'er the hills ...
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... waves , 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 ...
... waves , 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 ...
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... waves , the storm , Of my sin - sick soul , I pass'd one evening by an angel form . She had seen me sadly smile upon some children sporting by , And her heart was touch'd with pity — and a tear came in her eye : And she look'd upon me ...
... waves , the storm , Of my sin - sick soul , I pass'd one evening by an angel form . She had seen me sadly smile upon some children sporting by , And her heart was touch'd with pity — and a tear came in her eye : And she look'd upon me ...
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... waves of life that could not in an hour forget . What , if on my holiest moments burst detested thoughts and vile , Like a breath the cloud was scatter'd with the magic of her Soon we parted - but that radiance pass'd not into smile ...
... waves of life that could not in an hour forget . What , if on my holiest moments burst detested thoughts and vile , Like a breath the cloud was scatter'd with the magic of her Soon we parted - but that radiance pass'd not into smile ...
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... waves . The fashions of this world , its feasts and songs , Το my incredulous gaze seem'd planted now Upon the words — no peace . The course of Time , Its seeming endless cycles , its vast spans , Stretching like new horizons day by day ...
... waves . The fashions of this world , its feasts and songs , Το my incredulous gaze seem'd planted now Upon the words — no peace . The course of Time , Its seeming endless cycles , its vast spans , Stretching like new horizons day by day ...
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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.