Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ImmortalityStoddart & Atherton, 1830 - 301 pages |
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... wing'd by Heav'n To fly at infinite , and reach it there , Where seraphs gather immortality , On life's fair tree , fast by the throne of God . What golden joys ambrosial clust'ring glow In his full beam , and ripen for the just , Where ...
... wing'd by Heav'n To fly at infinite , and reach it there , Where seraphs gather immortality , On life's fair tree , fast by the throne of God . What golden joys ambrosial clust'ring glow In his full beam , and ripen for the just , Where ...
Page 11
... wings to reach the skies ! 170 Night visions may befriend ( as sung above :) Our waking dreams are fatal . How I dreamt Of things impossible ! ( could sleep do more ? ) 165 Of joys perpetual in perpetual change ! Of stable pleasures on ...
... wings to reach the skies ! 170 Night visions may befriend ( as sung above :) Our waking dreams are fatal . How I dreamt Of things impossible ! ( could sleep do more ? ) 165 Of joys perpetual in perpetual change ! Of stable pleasures on ...
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... wing no scar the sky retains , The parted wave no furrow from the keel , So dies in human hearts the thought of death . E'en with the tender tear , which nature sheds O'er those we love , we drop it in their grave . Can I forget ...
... wing no scar the sky retains , The parted wave no furrow from the keel , So dies in human hearts the thought of death . E'en with the tender tear , which nature sheds O'er those we love , we drop it in their grave . Can I forget ...
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... into day ! O had he , mounted on his wing of fire , Soar'd where I sink , and sung immortal man , How had it blest mankind , and rescued me ! 455 460 THE COMPLAINT . NIGHT II . -000- ON TIME , 20 Night L THE COMPLAINT .
... into day ! O had he , mounted on his wing of fire , Soar'd where I sink , and sung immortal man , How had it blest mankind , and rescued me ! 455 460 THE COMPLAINT . NIGHT II . -000- ON TIME , 20 Night L THE COMPLAINT .
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... wings , And seems to creep decrepit with his age ; Behold him when past by ; what then is seen But his broad pinions swifter than the winds ? And all mankind , in contradiction strong , Rueful , aghast ! cry out on his career . 140 ...
... wings , And seems to creep decrepit with his age ; Behold him when past by ; what then is seen But his broad pinions swifter than the winds ? And all mankind , in contradiction strong , Rueful , aghast ! cry out on his career . 140 ...
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