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... thou shalt to the soul be known , As that which can a charm impart , When all the earth - born hopes of man Have faded from the heart- A treasure that shall bless him more Than all the wealth the world e'er bore . " Twas thine to wake ...
... thou shalt to the soul be known , As that which can a charm impart , When all the earth - born hopes of man Have faded from the heart- A treasure that shall bless him more Than all the wealth the world e'er bore . " Twas thine to wake ...
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... Thou now shalt sing ; -days when no gloom Shall mar the sky's immortal hue , Spread o'er the flowers of endless bloom Along the vales of dew , Where weary breezes die away , Sick with the fragrance of the day ; — But of the scenes of ...
... Thou now shalt sing ; -days when no gloom Shall mar the sky's immortal hue , Spread o'er the flowers of endless bloom Along the vales of dew , Where weary breezes die away , Sick with the fragrance of the day ; — But of the scenes of ...
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Henry Scott Riddell. INTRODUCTION . COME , then , thou holy Lyre - come to my heart- Thy tones shall fill the breeze of hill and glen ; For I will woo thy time - worn chords , apart From all the noisy homes of living men— When dawning ...
Henry Scott Riddell. INTRODUCTION . COME , then , thou holy Lyre - come to my heart- Thy tones shall fill the breeze of hill and glen ; For I will woo thy time - worn chords , apart From all the noisy homes of living men— When dawning ...
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... thou ? or hast thou deem'd that He Who wove the heavens o'er the weltering sea , And , by the mandate of creative power , Sublimed the rock , and dyed the lowly flower , Dwells in a cold abstraction , far away From thee , and all the ...
... thou ? or hast thou deem'd that He Who wove the heavens o'er the weltering sea , And , by the mandate of creative power , Sublimed the rock , and dyed the lowly flower , Dwells in a cold abstraction , far away From thee , and all the ...
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... thou , and he whom thou hast fear'd , Have tamper'd with our doubts too long ; For know ye not , that we have rear'd The hopes which make our spirit strong ? — Our names shall live in bright renown When thine has to the dust gone down ...
... thou , and he whom thou hast fear'd , Have tamper'd with our doubts too long ; For know ye not , that we have rear'd The hopes which make our spirit strong ? — Our names shall live in bright renown When thine has to the dust gone down ...
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abode afar amid Ararat aught awful bless'd bliss bore bosom bower breast breath breeze bright brow calm cease charm cold dark dawn dead death decay deep dread dream dwell e'er earth eternity evermore fair faith fear feelings flower gloom glory glow green grey hath heart heaven heaving holy hope hour Japheth Jehovah Lelah light lips live lone melted mercy mind moorland morning mortal mountain ne'er neath never night Noah o'er the world own'd pain pass'd peace power of pain prayer radiance rills roll'd round scene seem'd shade shadows shed Shem sigh simoom sleep smile song sorrow sought soul spirit star starless night strife sublime sung surely shalt die tempest thee thine thou surely shalt thought throne tide trembling Twas vale voice wake wander waters waves wayward weary wild wilderness winds wont
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Page 325 - And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son ; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount. And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
Page 310 - And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning.
Page 22 - pear'd the shadow of the curse That hung, to deepen, o'er the universe — The arm, prepared to work the works of hell, Shorn of its power, in palsied frailty fell ; And lips, that wont so fiercely to dispute In words of blasphemy, grew pale and mute, As startled looks, with wilder'd meaning fraught, From heart to heart convey'd the sudden thought, That from some dread, unalterable decree, Unwonted doom had been, or soon should be ; Even nature show'da strange and wild dismay, As if her secret laws...
Page 22 - As if her secret laws hud roll'd astray. " The azure sky, that scarce a cloud had known Since first its glowing lamps in glory shone— Since first, amid its airy regions hung, The morning stars in joy together sung, ] Began to mingle with its native blue, A wildly sicken'd, melancholy hue, Pale as the light that tampers with the gloom Around the precincts of the whiten'd tomb, When morn its earliest glimmering renews Athwart the wild weeds and the churchyard dews.
Page 270 - Japheth's wife, so brisk of mood, Amid the mountain's solitude, With airy form and footstep light, Pursued afar the raven's flight, That she might gain a jewel gay, Which, snatching, he had borne away ; Yet still as she, in hope, would gain His resting-place, and search'd in vain, Returning, he would near her perch, And boldly aid that eager search ; And gledge and downward cast his eye, And tear the mud and moss around, As if he would with her outvie In ft tiding what coutd not be found.
Page 21 - ... opinion of the merits of this poem is, it contains several passages that indicate higher powers than we should have, from its general tenor, inclined to give the author credit for possessing. Among these, Is the impressive prelude to the deluge : " When the secret council of the sky Was spread in open light before their eye, And from Jehovah's will the thought went forth, That told through heaven the destiny of earth, Emotion of Inexplicable kind Trembled afar through all created mind. " The...
Page 255 - These ringlets yet are dark and long, And the eye has lost not all its light, Though it might not aye its tears among Be all so blue and all so bright, As yet it seem'd, ere the lily white...