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... face of nature , is subject to perspective laws : the scene changes with the position of the observer . While Youth is mounting the sunny side of the hill , Middle Life stands at the apex , and Age is descending among the shadows beyond ...
... face of nature , is subject to perspective laws : the scene changes with the position of the observer . While Youth is mounting the sunny side of the hill , Middle Life stands at the apex , and Age is descending among the shadows beyond ...
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... face of death . How sobless is the absence of all breath ! How soothed the pulse whose tides have ceased to flow ! Who brands with ' tyrant ' him who bears release Up to the martyr's stake , and isles the deep Through all its raging ...
... face of death . How sobless is the absence of all breath ! How soothed the pulse whose tides have ceased to flow ! Who brands with ' tyrant ' him who bears release Up to the martyr's stake , and isles the deep Through all its raging ...
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... face with courage due the shadowy land , And scarce would lag behind our marching peers . And so , best loved ! each sad and gradual trace Our future may reveal of springtime past Will catch a soothing from the splendour cast On Autumn ...
... face with courage due the shadowy land , And scarce would lag behind our marching peers . And so , best loved ! each sad and gradual trace Our future may reveal of springtime past Will catch a soothing from the splendour cast On Autumn ...
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... face Of failing health , I have a picture , sir , I wish you much to see . ' At secret stir Of sympathy , I sought his dwelling - place Where poverty sat bare . From childhood's eyes Yearn'd looks of age and urged him to fresh toil ...
... face Of failing health , I have a picture , sir , I wish you much to see . ' At secret stir Of sympathy , I sought his dwelling - place Where poverty sat bare . From childhood's eyes Yearn'd looks of age and urged him to fresh toil ...
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... No feeling but of sorrow for the tear That came in witness of his dumb distress . Ah me ! that Paradise so sweet and clear ! The sickly artist and the children old ! VII . UP THE STREAM . MUSING on aged faces 20 Lays of Middle Age .
... No feeling but of sorrow for the tear That came in witness of his dumb distress . Ah me ! that Paradise so sweet and clear ! The sickly artist and the children old ! VII . UP THE STREAM . MUSING on aged faces 20 Lays of Middle Age .
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