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... thee ! " But I forget myself . Before the end of the service , succes- sive bands of soldiers , with drums playing , marched into the nave , and after lining all the side aisles , formed a broad avenue from the barrier of the choir down ...
... thee ! " But I forget myself . Before the end of the service , succes- sive bands of soldiers , with drums playing , marched into the nave , and after lining all the side aisles , formed a broad avenue from the barrier of the choir down ...
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... thee , So winning , light , are all thy ways , I cannot choose but love thee : Thy balmy breath upon my brow Is like the summer air , As o'er my cheek thou leanest now To plant a soft kiss there . SOPH . Thy steps are dancing toward the ...
... thee , So winning , light , are all thy ways , I cannot choose but love thee : Thy balmy breath upon my brow Is like the summer air , As o'er my cheek thou leanest now To plant a soft kiss there . SOPH . Thy steps are dancing toward the ...
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... thee ; and God comfort both him and thee . Thy loving sister , " WINIFREDA LANGLAND . " The thoughts of Rose Aleyn were now strangely bewildered . At once not only her morning cheerfulness , but all the calmness of her mind , was gone ...
... thee ; and God comfort both him and thee . Thy loving sister , " WINIFREDA LANGLAND . " The thoughts of Rose Aleyn were now strangely bewildered . At once not only her morning cheerfulness , but all the calmness of her mind , was gone ...
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... thee ; I know that it can only seem But let it seem to be . It is a vision sent to bless The spirit of my youth awhile ; Oh ! let it still upon my spirit smile ! It is a vision in whose soft caress To - day - perhaps to - morrow , I may ...
... thee ; I know that it can only seem But let it seem to be . It is a vision sent to bless The spirit of my youth awhile ; Oh ! let it still upon my spirit smile ! It is a vision in whose soft caress To - day - perhaps to - morrow , I may ...
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... thee ! what can I less- What less than fondly brood On such a radiant form as thine , That surely hath subdued Full many a spirit less on fire than mine ! For Love and Beauty , long ago , Their faiths have plighted ; That as in Heaven ...
... thee ! what can I less- What less than fondly brood On such a radiant form as thine , That surely hath subdued Full many a spirit less on fire than mine ! For Love and Beauty , long ago , Their faiths have plighted ; That as in Heaven ...
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Page 111 - ALMIGHTY God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Page 6 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 363 - This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive.
Page 361 - My haunt, and the main region of my song. —Beauty— a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials— waits upon my steps; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Page 21 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 383 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony: That Orpheus...
Page 111 - ... that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom ; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 364 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in his honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect ? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Page 364 - Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy; but this clay will sink Its spark immortal, envying it the light To which it mounts, as if to break the link That keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brink.
Page 110 - My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing the fire kindled : and at the last I...