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... flowers ! I would not sleep ! I love to be Again in their fair company ; But ere my lips can bid them stay , They pass and vanish quite away ! Alas ! our memories may retrace Each circumstance of time 12 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
... flowers ! I would not sleep ! I love to be Again in their fair company ; But ere my lips can bid them stay , They pass and vanish quite away ! Alas ! our memories may retrace Each circumstance of time 12 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
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... flowers , discovered The secret that so long had hovered Upon the misty verge of Truth , The Elixir of Perpetual Youth , Called Alcohol , in the Arab speech ! Like him , this wondrous lore I teach ! What ! an adept ? PRINCE HENRY ...
... flowers , discovered The secret that so long had hovered Upon the misty verge of Truth , The Elixir of Perpetual Youth , Called Alcohol , in the Arab speech ! Like him , this wondrous lore I teach ! What ! an adept ? PRINCE HENRY ...
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... flower and efflorescence , Of all the knowledge man can ask ! Hold it up thus against the light ! PRINCE HENRY . How limpid , pure , and crystalline , How quick , and tremulous , and bright , The little wavelets dance and shine , As ...
... flower and efflorescence , Of all the knowledge man can ask ! Hold it up thus against the light ! PRINCE HENRY . How limpid , pure , and crystalline , How quick , and tremulous , and bright , The little wavelets dance and shine , As ...
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... flowers and the vagrant Vines that wandered , Seeking the sunshine , round and round . These he heeded not , but pondered On the volume in his hand , A volume of Saint Augustine , Wherein he read of the unseen Splendours of God's great ...
... flowers and the vagrant Vines that wandered , Seeking the sunshine , round and round . These he heeded not , but pondered On the volume in his hand , A volume of Saint Augustine , Wherein he read of the unseen Splendours of God's great ...
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... flowers . PRINCE HENRY , reading . ONE morning , all alone , Out of his convent of gray stone , Into the forest older , darker , grayer , His lips moving as if in prayer , His head sunken upon his breast As in a dream of rest , Walked ...
... flowers . PRINCE HENRY , reading . ONE morning , all alone , Out of his convent of gray stone , Into the forest older , darker , grayer , His lips moving as if in prayer , His head sunken upon his breast As in a dream of rest , Walked ...
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Page 226 - With music sweet, and low, and melancholy. Let us go forward, and no longer stay In this great picture-gallery of Death ! I hate it ! ay, the very thought of it ! Elsie.
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