The Archbishop, whom God loved in high degree,
Beheld his wounds all bleeding fresh and free;
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Once the Emperor Charles of Spain,
With his swarthy, grave commanders,
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Mounted on Kyrat strong and fleet,
His chestnut steed with four white feet,
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Pentecost, day of rejoicing, had come. The church of the village
Gleaming stood in the morning's sheen. On the spire of the bell
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Thou mighty Prince of Church and State,
Richelieu! until the hour of death,
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O curfew of the setting sun! O Bells of Lynn!
O requiem of the dying day! O Bells of Lynn!
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How many lives, made beautiful and sweet
By self-devotion and by self-restraint,
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I see amid the fields of Ayr
A ploughman, who, in foul and fair,
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In St. Luke's Gospel we are told
How Peter in the days of old
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At La Chaudeau,--'tis long since then:
I was young,--my years twice ten;
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From this high portal, where upsprings
The rose to touch our hands in play,
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Thou brooklet, all unknown to song,
Hid in the covert of the wood!
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What should be said of him cannot be said;
By too great splendor is his name attended;
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O precious evenings! all too swiftly sped!
Leaving us heirs to amplest heritages
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Spring is coming, birds are twittering, forests leaf, and smiles the sun,
And the loosened torrents downward, singing, to the ocean
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To gallop off to town post-haste,
So oft, the times I cannot tell;
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In Mather's Magnalia Christi,
Of the old colonial time,
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This song of mine
Is a Song of the Vine,
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Under Mount Etna he lies,
It is slumber, it is not death;
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A gentle boy, with soft and silken locks,
A dreamy boy, with brown and tender eyes,
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Up soared the lark into the air,
A shaft of song, a wingéd prayer,
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The Slaver in the broad lagoon
Lay moored with idle sail;
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THE SPIRE OF STRASBURG CATHEDRAL.
Night and storm. LUCIFER, with the Powers of the
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On the cross the dying Saviour
Heavenward lifts his eyelids calm,
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Forms of saints and kings are standing
The cathedral door above;
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Welcome, O Stork! that dost wing
Thy flight from the far-away!
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Will then, Duperrier, thy sorrow be eternal?
And shall the sad discourse
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Italy! Italy! thou who'rt doomed to wear
The fatal gift of beauty and possess
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How I started up in the night, in the night,
Drawn on without rest or reprieval!
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'Tis late at night, and in the realm of sleep
My little lambs are folded like the flocks;
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