Saw a boy three lilies white, Lilies in the river,
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Sir Wit, who is so much esteem'd,
And who is worthy of all honour,
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Or beasts there have been chosen four
To come to Paradise,
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Six among the courtiers favour'd
Fly before the Caesar's fury,
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YE shadowy forms, again ye're drawing near,
So wont of yore to meet my troubled gaze!
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THE ARCHANGELS' SONG.
RAPHAEL.
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CHRIST is arisen!
Mortal, all hail!
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VANISH, dark clouds on high,
Offspring of night!
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MY heart is sad,
My peace is o'er;
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Margaret. Faust.
MARGARET.
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O THOU well-tried in grief,
Grant to thy child relief,
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GOD gave to mortals birth,
In his own image too;
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CHORDS are touch'd by Apollo,--the death-laden bow, too, he bendeth;
While he the shepherdess charms, Python he lays in the dust.
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BRETHREN, what bequest to you should come
From the lowly poor man, going home,
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AFTER THE BATTLE OF BADE, BENEATH THE CANOPY OF HEAVEN.
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THERE stands on yonder high mountain
A castle built of yore,
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No door has my house,
No house has my door;
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YOUTH.
SAY, sparkling streamlet, whither thou
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'Tis worth not a thought!
Can the Koran a creation, then, be?
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Blamed us in ev'ry way,
And, in abuse of drunkenness,
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From Heaven there fell upon the foaming wave
A timid drop; the flood with anger roared,--
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BULBUL'S song, through night hours cold,
Rose to Allah's throne on high;
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In the Koran with strange delight
A peacock's feather met my sight:
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ALL kinds of men, both small and great,
A fine-spun web delight to create,
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IN Paradise while moonbeams play'd,
Jehovah found, in slumber deep,
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SPEAK, ye stones, I entreat! Oh speak, ye palaces lofty!
Utter a word, oh ye streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake?
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FARTHER and farther away, alas! at each moment the vessel
Hastens, as onward it glides, cleaving the foam-cover'd flood!
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FATE AND SYMPATHY.
"NE'ER have I seen the market and streets so thoroughly empty!
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HERMANN.
THEN when into the room the well-built son made his entry,
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THE BURGHERS.
THUS did the prudent son escape from the hot conversation,
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