. Death's doings : consisting of numerous original compositions in verse and prose, the friendly contributions of various writers : principally intended as illustrations of thirty copper-plates . thoughts that wring the heart with pain. None but itself can better taught my soul to dare. Its own high path of bliss,Unmovd—unbowd—unchangd—to bear. Far darker pangs than this. 48 deaths doings. Oh Death ! thou comst to me as when Thy step was oer the thou unveildst thy form to men. Where He, th Athenian, died ;Or, gentler, when with vigils sweet. Upon the midnight
. Death's doings : consisting of numerous original compositions in verse and prose, the friendly contributions of various writers : principally intended as illustrations of thirty copper-plates . thoughts that wring the heart with pain. None but itself can better taught my soul to dare. Its own high path of bliss,Unmovd—unbowd—unchangd—to bear. Far darker pangs than this. 48 deaths doings. Oh Death ! thou comst to me as when Thy step was oer the thou unveildst thy form to men. Where He, th Athenian, died ;Or, gentler, when with vigils sweet. Upon the midnight comst where chastend souls repeat Their last and cheeriest prayer. I see the land where Hope hath made Her everlasting peace, that was long wont to fade. Leaves not my soothed breast;The strains that oer my slumbers hung, The forms my pathway lovd in thought—each perishd one. The seard heart loved, and lost— They are around me, brightning still. From their ethereal clouded, as before, with ill. With mortal woe or crime—And far away with them I track. Thy deep, unfathomd sea—Hail to the hour that calls us back ! Pale Vision, hail to thee ! H. TJIE PILGISIM. 4J) THE PILGRIM. And Palmer, grey Palmer, by Galilees ! saw you Count Albert, the gentle and the crescent waxed faint, and the red cross rushed on,Oh ! saw you him foremost on Mount Lebanon. The ladye sat in her lonely tower,—She woke not her lute, she touched not a flower;Though the lute wooed her hand with its silver the roses were rich with the wealth of spring:But she thought not of them, for her heart was was with her knight in the Holy war. She lookM in the west;—it was not to seeThe crimson and gold of the sky and alike by the setting rather that day than night were begun ; E 50 deaths doings. But it was that a star was rising a diamond set in the purple natal star of her own true knight—No
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