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... once more , I heard the bee , The bird , the wind , the whispering tree , And that unearthly harmony O'er all my senses stole ; Till , stretched along the hillock's side , I dreamed , and in my dream I died . With one short moment's ...
... once more , I heard the bee , The bird , the wind , the whispering tree , And that unearthly harmony O'er all my senses stole ; Till , stretched along the hillock's side , I dreamed , and in my dream I died . With one short moment's ...
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... once the lungs inhaled the vital air ; the blood ran through the arteries and veins ; the nerves bore every sensation to and fro ; the muscles moved the whole frame ; the heart throbbed within ; the eye had its flash , the cheek its ...
... once the lungs inhaled the vital air ; the blood ran through the arteries and veins ; the nerves bore every sensation to and fro ; the muscles moved the whole frame ; the heart throbbed within ; the eye had its flash , the cheek its ...
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... once to their lips ; and the foundation of all language was laid in the analogies of nature . The voice of God breathed to them as distinctly in the garden , in the cool of the day , as the murmurs of the wind . In the subtlest of all ...
... once to their lips ; and the foundation of all language was laid in the analogies of nature . The voice of God breathed to them as distinctly in the garden , in the cool of the day , as the murmurs of the wind . In the subtlest of all ...
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... once planted in the human frame ; of sickness which would else have been an unknown thought , and of decay , which the fruit of the unforbidden Tree of Life would for ever have averted . Shame and fear accompanied the consciousness of ...
... once planted in the human frame ; of sickness which would else have been an unknown thought , and of decay , which the fruit of the unforbidden Tree of Life would for ever have averted . Shame and fear accompanied the consciousness of ...
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... once warm and buoyant . It is enough to make the simple comparison between the present popu- lation of any old district or town , and its collective population in all the past ; and the mind will grasp the superior number of the dead ...
... once warm and buoyant . It is enough to make the simple comparison between the present popu- lation of any old district or town , and its collective population in all the past ; and the mind will grasp the superior number of the dead ...
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Page 235 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Page 283 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 55 - The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Page 212 - He took the Cup; and, when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of this ; for this is My Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins : Do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of Me.
Page 228 - Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Page 206 - O my Father, if this cup may not pass from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Page 92 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 195 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis...
Page 214 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come ; that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 218 - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh...