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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: Through gold-woven dreams goes the dance of the hours, In space without bounds swell the soul and its powers, And truth, with no veil, gives her face to the day. And joy to-day and joy to-morrow, But wafts the airy soul aloft; The very name is lost to sorrow, And pain is rapture tuned more exquisitely soft. Here the pilgrim reposes the world-weary limh, And forgets in the shadow, cool-breathing and dim, The load he shall bear never more; Here the mower, his sickle at rest, by the streams, Lulled with harp-strings, reviews, in the calm of his dreams, The fields, when the harvest is o'er. Here, he, whose ears drank in the battle roar, Whose banners streamed upon the startled wind A thunder-storm, before whose thunder tread The mountains trembled, in soft sleep reclined, By the sweet brook that o'er its pebbly bed In silver plays, and murmurs to the shore, Hears the stern clangour of wild spears no more Here the true spouse the lost-beloved regains, And on the enamelled couch of summer-plains Mingles sweet kisses with the zephyr's breath. Here, crowned at last, love never knows decay, Living through ages its one bridal day, Safe from the stroke of death THE FLOWERS. Ye offspring of the morning sun, Ye flowers that deck the smiling plain, Your lives, in joy and bliss begun, In Nature's love unchanged remain. With hues of bright and godlike splendour Sweet Flora graced your forms so tender, And clothed ye in a garb of light; Spring's lovely children weep for ever, For living souls she gave ye never, And ye must dwell in endless night ? The nightingale and lark still sing In your tranced ears the bliss of love: The toying sylphs, on airy wing, Around your fragrant bosoms rove. Of yore, Dione's daughterl twin...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217251068 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217251064 |
| Weight | 1.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.18 In |
| List Price | $29.78 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 530 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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