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... Out of the cold , dark earth . " In my heart , ” she said , " I love him ; and for him Would leave my father's palace , To labor in his garden . " PRINCE HENRY . Dear , innocent child ! How sweetly 52 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
... Out of the cold , dark earth . " In my heart , ” she said , " I love him ; and for him Would leave my father's palace , To labor in his garden . " PRINCE HENRY . Dear , innocent child ! How sweetly 52 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. PRINCE HENRY . Dear , innocent child ! How sweetly thou recallest The long - forgotten legend , That in my early childhood My mother told me ! Upon my brain It reappears once more , As a birth - mark on the ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. PRINCE HENRY . Dear , innocent child ! How sweetly thou recallest The long - forgotten legend , That in my early childhood My mother told me ! Upon my brain It reappears once more , As a birth - mark on the ...
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... child ! MAX . I love him because he is so good , And makes me such fine bows and arrows , To shoot at the robins and the sparrows , And the red squirrels in the wood ! I love him , too ! BERTHA . GOTTLIEB . 60 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
... child ! MAX . I love him because he is so good , And makes me such fine bows and arrows , To shoot at the robins and the sparrows , And the red squirrels in the wood ! I love him , too ! BERTHA . GOTTLIEB . 60 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
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... her own accord , Offers her life for that of her lord , And is willing to die in his stead . ELSIE . URSULA . Prithee , thou foolish child , be still ! I will ! Thou shouldst not say what thou dost not mean ! 62 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
... her own accord , Offers her life for that of her lord , And is willing to die in his stead . ELSIE . URSULA . Prithee , thou foolish child , be still ! I will ! Thou shouldst not say what thou dost not mean ! 62 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
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... creep up stairs . URSULA . Good night , my children . Here's the light . And do not forget to say your prayers Before you sleep . GOTTLIEB . Good night ! MAX and BERTHA . Good night ! They go out 64 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
... creep up stairs . URSULA . Good night , my children . Here's the light . And do not forget to say your prayers Before you sleep . GOTTLIEB . Good night ! MAX and BERTHA . Good night ! They go out 64 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
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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...
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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...