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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Saw proceed the transmutation ?Jura's black to one gold glow, Trod your level path that let me drink the morning deep and slow, Reached the little quarry?ravage recompensed by shrub and fern? Till the overflowing ardours told me time was for return. So, return I did, and gaily. But, for once, from no far mound Waved salute a tall white figure. Has her sleep been so profound ? Foresight, rather, prudent saving strength for day's expenditure Ay, the chamber-window's open: out and on the terrace, sure No, the terrace showed no figure, tall, white, leaning through the wreaths, Tangle-twine of leaf and bloom that intercept the air one breathes, Interpose between one's love and Nature's loving, hill and dale Down to where the blue lake's wrinkle marks the river's inrush pale ?Mazy Arve: whereon no vessel but goes sliding white and plain, Not a steam-boat pants from harbour but one hears pulsate amain, Past the city's congregated peace of homes and pomp of spires ?Man's mild protest that there's something more than Nature, man requires, And that, useful as is Nature to attract the tourist's foot, Quiet slow sure money-making proves the matter's very root, ? Need for body, ?while the spirit also needs a comfort reached By no help of lake or mountain, but the texts whence Calvin preached. Here's the veil withdrawn from landscape: up to Jura and beyond, All awaits us ranged and ready; yet she violates the bond, Neither leans nor looks nor listens: why is this ? A turn of eye . Took the whole sole answer, gave the undisputed reason why This dread way you had your summons No premonitory touch, As you talked and laughed ('t is told me) scarce a minute ere the clutch Captured you in cold for...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459091894 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459091892 |
| Weight | 0.21 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.13 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 54 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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