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... beauty , Palestina's joy ? Where are they now ? The deluge - waves of wo Have rolled their ruin o'er them all for aye ! Their shivered columns lie the prey of Time , Like lifeless skeletons , whose scattered bones His ravenous tooth has ...
... beauty , Palestina's joy ? Where are they now ? The deluge - waves of wo Have rolled their ruin o'er them all for aye ! Their shivered columns lie the prey of Time , Like lifeless skeletons , whose scattered bones His ravenous tooth has ...
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... How every branch begemmed in beauty shines With sunlit radiance and with rainbow hues ! How many myriad eyes seem twinkling now Through every icy interstice of boughs , As if yon firmament were lowered to earth , And 40 NIAGARA .
... How every branch begemmed in beauty shines With sunlit radiance and with rainbow hues ! How many myriad eyes seem twinkling now Through every icy interstice of boughs , As if yon firmament were lowered to earth , And 40 NIAGARA .
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... beauty and the beams of love , Will sometimes from the outward world approach , Or from above it fall , whose influence sweet Will penetrate its labyrinths so dark , Will pass the portals of the locked - up heart , And hang its ...
... beauty and the beams of love , Will sometimes from the outward world approach , Or from above it fall , whose influence sweet Will penetrate its labyrinths so dark , Will pass the portals of the locked - up heart , And hang its ...
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... beauty , warmed thy heart , Unriveted thy chains , and broke the bars Wherewith thou hadst been caged , and set thee free ; The Summer's eye hath made more bright thy hues , Until the radiance of thy waves and banks Hath so intensely ...
... beauty , warmed thy heart , Unriveted thy chains , and broke the bars Wherewith thou hadst been caged , and set thee free ; The Summer's eye hath made more bright thy hues , Until the radiance of thy waves and banks Hath so intensely ...
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... beauty o'er my soul , until Oblivious of my own identity , I seem a part of Nature's edifice , Built round these laboring floods to screen their toil , Here standing awed amid her central halls . All these are thy hereditary homes ...
... beauty o'er my soul , until Oblivious of my own identity , I seem a part of Nature's edifice , Built round these laboring floods to screen their toil , Here standing awed amid her central halls . All these are thy hereditary homes ...
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Page 149 - I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim : each one had six wings ; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said: — " Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts : the whole earth is full of His glory.
Page 151 - And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Page 152 - And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
Page 150 - Inspire the course ; but fainting breathless toil, Sick, seizes on his heart: he stands at bay; And puts his last weak refuge in despair; The big round tears run down his dappled face ; He groans in anguish...
Page 149 - Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Page 164 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 151 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 184 - The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Page 165 - Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Page 165 - Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. 37. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.