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... scarr'd with sin . Brother , thou wert ever to me as a young and golden mist Floating through blue liquid heavens , with the morning sun- light kiss'd ; Which the eye looks up and blesses , lingering on 2 THE TWO BROTHERS .
... scarr'd with sin . Brother , thou wert ever to me as a young and golden mist Floating through blue liquid heavens , with the morning sun- light kiss'd ; Which the eye looks up and blesses , lingering on 2 THE TWO BROTHERS .
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... young pleasure's train , Dances , and revelries , and reckless smiles , All cluster'd there beneath a cloudless sky : : - None know it is but painted o'er their heads , And that the true dread heavens roll rife with storms THE THINGS ...
... young pleasure's train , Dances , and revelries , and reckless smiles , All cluster'd there beneath a cloudless sky : : - None know it is but painted o'er their heads , And that the true dread heavens roll rife with storms THE THINGS ...
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... young crystal fountain , music - like , Flow'd a majestic river through the vale Of life ; and I was wandering by its banks , And often paused my footstep , often gazed Into what seem'd a nether sky , where heaven With its unfathomable ...
... young crystal fountain , music - like , Flow'd a majestic river through the vale Of life ; and I was wandering by its banks , And often paused my footstep , often gazed Into what seem'd a nether sky , where heaven With its unfathomable ...
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... young delight , That whilome , as I gazed , had pass'd away , Or seem'd to pass , like phantom soulless things . And a voice spake within me , " Thou hast found , By finding out thy spirit's home in God , A master key of truth that ...
... young delight , That whilome , as I gazed , had pass'd away , Or seem'd to pass , like phantom soulless things . And a voice spake within me , " Thou hast found , By finding out thy spirit's home in God , A master key of truth that ...
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... young heart at Samson's funeral pyre ; I felt thy silent longings ; but my heart , Though school'd in grief , refused the mourner's part : I could not tell thee without tears his story— I could not weep o'er Samson's tomb of glory ...
... young heart at Samson's funeral pyre ; I felt thy silent longings ; but my heart , Though school'd in grief , refused the mourner's part : I could not tell thee without tears his story— I could not weep o'er Samson's tomb of glory ...
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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.