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... off home of bliss , Or a beautiful life - picture by affection's fingers drawn , But which , like my earthly joys , should fade , fade , fade away at dawn . Weep not , brother ! thou hast found that angel 4 THE TWO BROTHERS . ABIDE IN.
... off home of bliss , Or a beautiful life - picture by affection's fingers drawn , But which , like my earthly joys , should fade , fade , fade away at dawn . Weep not , brother ! thou hast found that angel 4 THE TWO BROTHERS . ABIDE IN.
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And Other Poems Edward Henry Bickersteth. Weep not , brother ! thou hast found that angel of the far - off land , Whom our mother saw there kneeling , gently clinging to thy hand . I , too , have a tale to tell thee ( would that it may ...
And Other Poems Edward Henry Bickersteth. Weep not , brother ! thou hast found that angel of the far - off land , Whom our mother saw there kneeling , gently clinging to thy hand . I , too , have a tale to tell thee ( would that it may ...
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... weeping , on her cold sepul- chral bier ; And with faltering listless footsteps slowly sought , when all was o'er , Hand in hand our desolate home ; though desolate , ours , alas , no more . We were parted - each alone , ' mid stranger ...
... weeping , on her cold sepul- chral bier ; And with faltering listless footsteps slowly sought , when all was o'er , Hand in hand our desolate home ; though desolate , ours , alas , no more . We were parted - each alone , ' mid stranger ...
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... weep- Had I pray'd an Ear was open , and an Eye that could not sleep . But when all without was desert , and wild desert all within , Plunged I with a maniac's madness , down the treacherous gulph of sin . Whilome I had often sneer'd at ...
... weep- Had I pray'd an Ear was open , and an Eye that could not sleep . But when all without was desert , and wild desert all within , Plunged I with a maniac's madness , down the treacherous gulph of sin . Whilome I had often sneer'd at ...
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... weeping train of woes , But I shut my heart upon them , chased them ever as they rose , 3 " Listening the lordly music flowing on The illimitable years . " - TENNYSON's Ode to Memory . Rambled on through fancy labyrinths , dreaming o'er ...
... weeping train of woes , But I shut my heart upon them , chased them ever as they rose , 3 " Listening the lordly music flowing on The illimitable years . " - TENNYSON's Ode to Memory . Rambled on through fancy labyrinths , dreaming o'er ...
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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.