Festus, a poem [by P.J. Bailey]. By P.J. Bailey |
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... e'er assured . Lucifer . Vaunt not thyself nor aught too hastily . Guardian Angel . To you ye saints and angels let me speak ; For ye , I see , rejoice with me . Ye know What ' tis to triumph o'er temptation ; what To fall before it ...
... e'er assured . Lucifer . Vaunt not thyself nor aught too hastily . Guardian Angel . To you ye saints and angels let me speak ; For ye , I see , rejoice with me . Ye know What ' tis to triumph o'er temptation ; what To fall before it ...
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... than the wind hath he down sped ; By me e'er seen through ; who , deformity being Essential , every fount of life with death Embittereth , taints each separate birth with sin , And the soul - world fouls with self ; so FESTUS . 23.
... than the wind hath he down sped ; By me e'er seen through ; who , deformity being Essential , every fount of life with death Embittereth , taints each separate birth with sin , And the soul - world fouls with self ; so FESTUS . 23.
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... e'er can know the worst . What thinkest thou now can anger me , or harm ? Festus . Wherefore didst thou quit hell ? to drag me there ? Lucifer . Thou wilt not guess mine errand . Deem'st thou aught Which God hath made all evil ? Me he ...
... e'er can know the worst . What thinkest thou now can anger me , or harm ? Festus . Wherefore didst thou quit hell ? to drag me there ? Lucifer . Thou wilt not guess mine errand . Deem'st thou aught Which God hath made all evil ? Me he ...
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... e'er again on her alive . She wished , she said , to die . She wished ; she died . The lightning loathes its cloud ; such souls their clay . Can I forget that hand I took in mine , Pale as pale violets ? that eye where soul And sense ...
... e'er again on her alive . She wished , she said , to die . She wished ; she died . The lightning loathes its cloud ; such souls their clay . Can I forget that hand I took in mine , Pale as pale violets ? that eye where soul And sense ...
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... E'er , and re - tread . To waste , to spoil's to live . Guardian Angel . Do thou thy best , thy worst , thou still art foiled . And while ingriding even thy gravest wound , Losest thine aim ; that wound is healed of death . Lucifer ...
... E'er , and re - tread . To waste , to spoil's to live . Guardian Angel . Do thou thy best , thy worst , thou still art foiled . And while ingriding even thy gravest wound , Losest thine aim ; that wound is healed of death . Lucifer ...
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