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... , yearning , With my lamp well trimmed and burning ! Interceding With these bleeding Wounds upon thy hands and side , For all who have lived and erred Thou hast suffered , thou hast died , Scourged , 67 ELSIE'S CHAMBER. ...
... , yearning , With my lamp well trimmed and burning ! Interceding With these bleeding Wounds upon thy hands and side , For all who have lived and erred Thou hast suffered , thou hast died , Scourged , 67 ELSIE'S CHAMBER. ...
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... side by side . The Saints are dead , the Martyrs dead , And Mary , and our Lord ; and I Would follow in humility The way by them illumined ! URSULA . My child ! my child ! thou must not die ! ELSIE . Why should I live ? Do I not know ...
... side by side . The Saints are dead , the Martyrs dead , And Mary , and our Lord ; and I Would follow in humility The way by them illumined ! URSULA . My child ! my child ! thou must not die ! ELSIE . Why should I live ? Do I not know ...
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... , silent , apart from all , With its awful portal open wide , And its latticed windows on either side , And its step well worn by the bended knees Of one or two pious centuries , Stands the village 84 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
... , silent , apart from all , With its awful portal open wide , And its latticed windows on either side , And its step well worn by the bended knees Of one or two pious centuries , Stands the village 84 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
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... side ! What brings thee hither ? What potent charm Has drawn thee from thy German farm Into the old Alsatian city ? PRINCE HENRY . A tale of wonder and of pity ! A wretched man , almost by stealth Dragging my body to Salern , In the ...
... side ! What brings thee hither ? What potent charm Has drawn thee from thy German farm Into the old Alsatian city ? PRINCE HENRY . A tale of wonder and of pity ! A wretched man , almost by stealth Dragging my body to Salern , In the ...
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... thirty years shall have gone by , I at Jerusalem shall die , By Jewish hands exalted high On the accursed tree . Then on my right and my left side , These thieves shall both be crucified , And Titus thenceforth 144 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
... thirty years shall have gone by , I at Jerusalem shall die , By Jewish hands exalted high On the accursed tree . Then on my right and my left side , These thieves shall both be crucified , And Titus thenceforth 144 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...