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... faces alter ! I did not know you . You look older ! Your hair has grown much grayer and thinner , And you stoop a little in the shoulder ! HUBERT . Alack ! I am a poor old sinner , And , like these towers , begin to moulder ; And have ...
... faces alter ! I did not know you . You look older ! Your hair has grown much grayer and thinner , And you stoop a little in the shoulder ! HUBERT . Alack ! I am a poor old sinner , And , like these towers , begin to moulder ; And have ...
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... her Saviour's feet , And looking up at his beloved face ! O friend ! O best of friends ! Thy absence more Than the impending night darkens the land- scape o'er ! II . A FARM IN THE ODENWALD . A garden THE GOLDEN LEGEND . 39.
... her Saviour's feet , And looking up at his beloved face ! O friend ! O best of friends ! Thy absence more Than the impending night darkens the land- scape o'er ! II . A FARM IN THE ODENWALD . A garden THE GOLDEN LEGEND . 39.
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... face , But the faces were new and strange ; New figures sat in the oaken stalls , New voices chaunted in the choir ; Yet the place was the same place , 1 The same dusky walls Of cold , gray stone , 46 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
... face , But the faces were new and strange ; New figures sat in the oaken stalls , New voices chaunted in the choir ; Yet the place was the same place , 1 The same dusky walls Of cold , gray stone , 46 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
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... face ! The heart of the Monk Felix fell : And he answered , with submissive tone , " This morning , after the hour of Prime , I left my cell , And wandered forth alone , Listening all the time To the melodious singing Of a beautiful ...
... face ! The heart of the Monk Felix fell : And he answered , with submissive tone , " This morning , after the hour of Prime , I left my cell , And wandered forth alone , Listening all the time To the melodious singing Of a beautiful ...
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... that any man has the face To call such a hole the House of the Lord , And the Gate of Heaven , —yet such is the word . Ceiling , and walls , and windows old , Covered with cobwebs , blackened with mould ; Dust on 82 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
... that any man has the face To call such a hole the House of the Lord , And the Gate of Heaven , —yet such is the word . Ceiling , and walls , and windows old , Covered with cobwebs , blackened with mould ; Dust on 82 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
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50 cents ABBOT Angel bells blessed brain breast breath bridge chaunted child cloud convent dark dead death deed deep Devil door drink evil eyes face Fastrada Father fear feet fills flowers forest FRIAR CUTHBERT FRIAR JOHN FRIAR PAUL garden gate goblet golden GOLDEN LEGEND GOTTLIEB hand hear heard heart heaven Henry of Hoheneck Hirschau holy HUBERT JESUS JUDAS King land light lips Little Red Ridinghood live look Lord loud LUCIFER MARY Minnesinger mystery night o'er ODENWALD pain passion POEMS Pray prayer Price 50 Price 75 cents priest PRINCE HENRY RABBI rest Rhine Rhuys ring Saint Saint Cecilia Salern SCHOLAR seneschal shadows shine silent singing sitting sleep song soul sound stand steed stone strange sweet thee thine Thou art thou hast trump of doom unto URSULA Virgin voice walls WALTER wilt wind wine words yonder
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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...