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... dead , Its mighty , mystic stream has rolled ; So , starting from its fountain - head Under the lotus - leaves of Isis , From the dead demigods of eld , Through long , unbroken lines of kings Its course the 20 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
... dead , Its mighty , mystic stream has rolled ; So , starting from its fountain - head Under the lotus - leaves of Isis , From the dead demigods of eld , Through long , unbroken lines of kings Its course the 20 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Through long , unbroken lines of kings Its course the sacred art has held , Unchecked , unchanged by man's devices . This art the Arabian Geber taught , And in alembics , finely wrought , Distilling herbs and ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Through long , unbroken lines of kings Its course the sacred art has held , Unchecked , unchanged by man's devices . This art the Arabian Geber taught , And in alembics , finely wrought , Distilling herbs and ...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. But thine is precious ; the fore - appointed Blood of kings , of God's anointed ! Moreover , what has the world in store For one like her , but tears and toil ? Daughter of sorrow , serf of the soil , A ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. But thine is precious ; the fore - appointed Blood of kings , of God's anointed ! Moreover , what has the world in store For one like her , but tears and toil ? Daughter of sorrow , serf of the soil , A ...
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... trembling string An arrow , that shall be , perchance , Like the arrow of the Israelite king Shot from the window toward the east , That of the Lord's deliverance ! PRINCE HENRY . My life , alas ! is what THE GOLDEN LEGEND . 111.
... trembling string An arrow , that shall be , perchance , Like the arrow of the Israelite king Shot from the window toward the east , That of the Lord's deliverance ! PRINCE HENRY . My life , alas ! is what THE GOLDEN LEGEND . 111.
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... King . RAPHAEL . I am the Angel of the Sun , Whose flaming wheels began to run When God's almighty breath Said to the darkness and the Night , Let there be light ! and there was light ! I bring the gift of Faith . GABRIEL . I am the ...
... King . RAPHAEL . I am the Angel of the Sun , Whose flaming wheels began to run When God's almighty breath Said to the darkness and the Night , Let there be light ! and there was light ! I bring the gift of Faith . GABRIEL . I am the ...
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Page 283 - I left him only two hours since Homeward returning down the river, As strong and well as if God, the Giver, Had given him back his youth again. URSULA, despairing.
Page 38 - The day is done ; and slowly from the scene The stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, And puts them back into his golden quiver...
Page 256 - For the weather changes with the moon. All this morning, until noon, We had baffling winds, and sudden flaws Struck the sea with their cat's-paws. Only a little hour ago I was whistling to Saint Antonio For a capful of wind to fill our sail, And instead of a breeze he has sent a gale. Last night I saw Saint Elmo's stars, With their glimmering lanterns, all at play On the tops of the masts and the tips of the spars, And I knew we should have foul weather to-day.
Page 13 - Alas ! our memories may retrace Each circumstance of time and place, Season and scene come back again, And outward things unchanged remain ; The rest we cannot reinstate ; Ourselves we cannot re-create, Nor set our souls to the same key Of the remembered harmony...
Page 19 - Not to be cured, yet not incurable ! The only remedy that remains Is the blood that flows from a maiden's veins, \ Who of her own free will shall die, And give her life as the price of yours...
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Page 122 - This way, that way, beaten and swung, That from Mouth of Brass, as from Mouth of Gold May be taught the Testaments, New and Old. And above it the great cross-beam of wood Representeth the Holy Rood, Upon which, like the bell, our hopes are hung. And the wheel wherewith it is swayed and rung Is the mind of man, that round and round Sways, and maketh the tongue to sound! And the rope, with its twisted cordage three, Denoteth the Scriptural Trinity Of Morals, and Symbols, and History ; And the upward...