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... light ! Stranger ! ' tis mine to urge the power By which I live to bless that hour . My guilt and grief are now like wrack That drifts along the tempest's track . God's mercy , like a healthful wind , Arose - nor left one cloud behind ...
... light ! Stranger ! ' tis mine to urge the power By which I live to bless that hour . My guilt and grief are now like wrack That drifts along the tempest's track . God's mercy , like a healthful wind , Arose - nor left one cloud behind ...
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... light , Flashing from roof and wall ; Scared by the rugged shapes that bent From Malmor's shattered battlement , Like fiends o'er some dread carnival— I felt as one , who , in a dream , Hears the fierce shout , the frenzied scream , And ...
... light , Flashing from roof and wall ; Scared by the rugged shapes that bent From Malmor's shattered battlement , Like fiends o'er some dread carnival— I felt as one , who , in a dream , Hears the fierce shout , the frenzied scream , And ...
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... light of being glowed , Now senseless as the sod it prest . No ! we could then exchange the glance So full of rapture stern and high ; For we had tamed the pride of France , And quelled her stately chivalry ; And felt that ages , yet to ...
... light of being glowed , Now senseless as the sod it prest . No ! we could then exchange the glance So full of rapture stern and high ; For we had tamed the pride of France , And quelled her stately chivalry ; And felt that ages , yet to ...
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... light of day ; Round the rough elm those tendrils twine That else were prostrate on the clay , Each but an abject , grovelling thing , Scarce grateful for the dews of spring ; D But now , like bride with bridal gem , Richly A LEGEND OF ...
... light of day ; Round the rough elm those tendrils twine That else were prostrate on the clay , Each but an abject , grovelling thing , Scarce grateful for the dews of spring ; D But now , like bride with bridal gem , Richly A LEGEND OF ...
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... light , till , back to bier , The prisoner deems his sentence near . Mine is the task - oh ! task how sweet ! No lover ere was half so blest , Hearing the lips of love repeat Those words that soothe , yet warm , the breast . The waving ...
... light , till , back to bier , The prisoner deems his sentence near . Mine is the task - oh ! task how sweet ! No lover ere was half so blest , Hearing the lips of love repeat Those words that soothe , yet warm , the breast . The waving ...
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