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Page 1 - Let this old woe step on the stage again, Act itself o'er anew for men to judge ; Not by the very sense and sight indeed, Which take at best imperfect cognizance. Since, how heart moves "brain, and how both move hand, What mortal ever in entirety saw
Page 6 - a seraph's shape I see it near, I see it nearer floating— It draws, it pulls me with a godlike power, And, lo, the abyss ! and thither am I moving ; I have no power within
Page 257 - How shall I woo her? I will try The charms of olden time, And swear by earth, and sea, and sky, And rave in prose and rhyme—• And I will tell her, when I bent My knee in other years, I was not half so eloquent; I could not
Page 253 - fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman of her gentle sex The seeming paragon
Page 6 - There's a dark spirit walking in our house, And swiftly will the destiny close on us. It drove me hither from my calm asylum ; It lures me forward—in a
Page 255 - bemoan His kindred laid in earth, The household hearts that were his own, It is the man of mirth.
Page 286 - Take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Page 256 - To throw away the worser part of it, and live the purer with the better half