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... breath To hold their rapine - feast . The cloud comes on them , the vision is changed , And a crash of lofty walls , And the short dead sound of music quenched , On the sickened hearing falls ; Quick and sharp is the ruin - cry ...
... breath To hold their rapine - feast . The cloud comes on them , the vision is changed , And a crash of lofty walls , And the short dead sound of music quenched , On the sickened hearing falls ; Quick and sharp is the ruin - cry ...
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... breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die , To cease upon the midnight with no pain , While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing , and I have ears in vain , — To thy high requiem ...
... breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die , To cease upon the midnight with no pain , While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing , and I have ears in vain , — To thy high requiem ...
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... breath and eyesight fail , and , one by one , The dogs are stretched among the mountain fern . Where is the throng , the tumult of the race ? The bugles that so joyfully were blown ? This chase it looks not like an earthly chase ; Sir ...
... breath and eyesight fail , and , one by one , The dogs are stretched among the mountain fern . Where is the throng , the tumult of the race ? The bugles that so joyfully were blown ? This chase it looks not like an earthly chase ; Sir ...
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... breath is lost , He totters , pallid as a ghost , And , looking down , espies A lamb , that in the pool is pent Within that black and frightful rent . The lamb had slipped into the stream , And safe without a bruise or wound The ...
... breath is lost , He totters , pallid as a ghost , And , looking down , espies A lamb , that in the pool is pent Within that black and frightful rent . The lamb had slipped into the stream , And safe without a bruise or wound The ...
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... breath , And scattering perfume on the summer air , Wooing the bee to come and labor there ; The clinging moss , whose hue of sober gray Makes beautiful what else were bleak and bare , These she has given thee as a fit array For thy ...
... breath , And scattering perfume on the summer air , Wooing the bee to come and labor there ; The clinging moss , whose hue of sober gray Makes beautiful what else were bleak and bare , These she has given thee as a fit array For thy ...
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