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...happy slumber, when ' He giveth His beloved sleep.' " She speaks of the time of her girlhood as — " The sweet, sad years — the melancholy years — Those of my own life, who by turns had flung] A Bhadow across me." I In 1839 "TheRomaunt of the Page" was published, followed in 1840 by the " Drama...

...having been collected and published at Cologne in the year 1627, by George Colverinus. THE LADY MAET. " I saw in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet,...years, the melancholy years — Those of my own life." MRS. THE Lady Mary sits alone in sable robes arrayed, Within a tapestried chamber veiled beneath the...

...Charity, these three; but the greatest of these is CHARITY." MOONLIGHT. " I saw, in gradual vision, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years—- Those of my own life." — MRS. BROWNING. THS streams are clear, the pastures green, and down in many a dell, Sweet, modest...

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...wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young : And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw in...backward by the hair, And a voice said in mastery as I strove, " Guess now who holds thee ?" " Death," I said. But there The silver answer rang, " Not...

...complete confidence of which she had spoken often, and of which she had thus expressed herself: — "A mystic shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair, And a voice said, in mastery, as I strove, 'Guess now, who holds thee?' ' Death!' I said; but there The silver answer rung: ' Not...

...wished-for years, Who each in one a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young ; And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sad, sweet years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across...