The Brighter Age: A Poem. ...Crocker & Brewster, 1830 - 91 pages |
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... dares beneath that veil to pry . Who can arrest the mind , or thought can stay ; When faith impels where fancy might delay ? Faith has unlocked those portals to the eye : Faith has rolled back the curtain of the sky : Paved the bright ...
... dares beneath that veil to pry . Who can arrest the mind , or thought can stay ; When faith impels where fancy might delay ? Faith has unlocked those portals to the eye : Faith has rolled back the curtain of the sky : Paved the bright ...
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... dare To gage that fearful prison of despair ; Where fiery floods flash on the hideous night , Making hell's darkness , darker by their light . There is no spot in Earth , or air , or sea , Barred from th ' approach of light - winged ...
... dare To gage that fearful prison of despair ; Where fiery floods flash on the hideous night , Making hell's darkness , darker by their light . There is no spot in Earth , or air , or sea , Barred from th ' approach of light - winged ...
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... dare Touch thee , forbidden ! Oh ! the fatal hour , When man was left to fall , by hellish power ! But why should one , who sings of brighter days , Pause in his path , to strike such mournful lays ? Let him , exulting , hail that ...
... dare Touch thee , forbidden ! Oh ! the fatal hour , When man was left to fall , by hellish power ! But why should one , who sings of brighter days , Pause in his path , to strike such mournful lays ? Let him , exulting , hail that ...
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... dares question Heaven's own hand and seal ? -- A universal change ; all human guilt Cancelled by blood , on Calvary's summit spilt ; Each vengeful passion gone , each heart at rest ; The earth one family , that family all blest . Then ...
... dares question Heaven's own hand and seal ? -- A universal change ; all human guilt Cancelled by blood , on Calvary's summit spilt ; Each vengeful passion gone , each heart at rest ; The earth one family , that family all blest . Then ...
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... dare thy war - song pour , To wake the strife , excite the maddening roar ? Why lov'st thou carnage , and the deadly strife , With breast to breast contending , life for life ? Does not calm nature woo thy wing to play , Where breezes ...
... dare thy war - song pour , To wake the strife , excite the maddening roar ? Why lov'st thou carnage , and the deadly strife , With breast to breast contending , life for life ? Does not calm nature woo thy wing to play , Where breezes ...
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