Affection's gift, for the loving and the loved . ight-hearted Innocence shrank from his sight. 14 THE DEMON TICTURE GALLERY. I turnd away—for a coldness there came,That Aveiit like an ague-chill through my again the shout of the demons all,Loudly rang through the vaulted, hall. That picture was painted by me, said one ; Thinkest thou not it is cleverly done VAnd again they danced, and again they loudly again their wild laugh rang—Ha ha ha ! ha ha ha! ha ha ha! I saw on the next, men with faces whose gloom,Bespake them in dread of some horrible doom ;And that volume so sacred
Affection's gift, for the loving and the loved . ight-hearted Innocence shrank from his sight. 14 THE DEMON TICTURE GALLERY. I turnd away—for a coldness there came,That Aveiit like an ague-chill through my again the shout of the demons all,Loudly rang through the vaulted, hall. That picture was painted by me, said one ; Thinkest thou not it is cleverly done VAnd again they danced, and again they loudly again their wild laugh rang—Ha ha ha ! ha ha ha! ha ha ha! I saw on the next, men with faces whose gloom,Bespake them in dread of some horrible doom ;And that volume so sacred, before them I saw,Men hold as their counsel, their guide, and their law;But its precepts by them were so strangely seemd with the deadliest venom imbued!And its voice of good-will meant by Heaven to made to add only to human distress. The world they were making all gloomy and dull,That God had created of beauty so full;The roses of life of their bloom they had sliorn,And left of them only the stems, and the j- 1 i ?*; 1
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