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... hands Clasped in her breathless wonder while He taught— Scarce to one pulse thrilled more in unison , Than with one soul this sister and her brother Had locked their lives together . In this love , Hallowed from stain , the woman's ...
... hands Clasped in her breathless wonder while He taught— Scarce to one pulse thrilled more in unison , Than with one soul this sister and her brother Had locked their lives together . In this love , Hallowed from stain , the woman's ...
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... hands upon her breast , — And they who followed her all fallen back To leave her with her sacred grief alone , - The heart of Christ was troubled . She drew near , And the disciples rose up from the fount , Moved by her look of wo , and ...
... hands upon her breast , — And they who followed her all fallen back To leave her with her sacred grief alone , - The heart of Christ was troubled . She drew near , And the disciples rose up from the fount , Moved by her look of wo , and ...
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... hand and foot , And borne by unseen angels from the cave , He that was dead stood with them . At the word Of Jesus , the fear - stricken Jews unloosed The bands from off the foldings of his shroud ; And Mary , with her sad veil thrown ...
... hand and foot , And borne by unseen angels from the cave , He that was dead stood with them . At the word Of Jesus , the fear - stricken Jews unloosed The bands from off the foldings of his shroud ; And Mary , with her sad veil thrown ...
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... hand , And on his neck fell weeping . And while all Lay on their faces prostrate , Lazarus Took Mary by the hand , and they knelt down And worshipped Him who loved them . VISIT TO MONT BLANC . BY REV . HUBBARD WINSLOW LAZARUS AND MARY . 15.
... hand , And on his neck fell weeping . And while all Lay on their faces prostrate , Lazarus Took Mary by the hand , and they knelt down And worshipped Him who loved them . VISIT TO MONT BLANC . BY REV . HUBBARD WINSLOW LAZARUS AND MARY . 15.
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... hand breadth of the sky ; -the moon was walking up the zenith in full - orbed lustre , and every star , save those eclipsed by the moon , seemed ambitious to put forth its most brilliant rays . Beneath our feet , and directly around us ...
... hand breadth of the sky ; -the moon was walking up the zenith in full - orbed lustre , and every star , save those eclipsed by the moon , seemed ambitious to put forth its most brilliant rays . Beneath our feet , and directly around us ...
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Page 23 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer 1...
Page 31 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 27 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Page 23 - HAST thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course ? So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, O sovran BLANC ! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly ; but thou, most awful Form ! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again...
Page 126 - But Martha was cumbered about much serving ; and came to him, and said ; Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone ? bid her therefore that she help me.
Page 150 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 67 - There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when, ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Page 60 - When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Page 172 - He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
Page 14 - Jesus therefore again groaning in Himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto Him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.