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VII . A lonely Dweller there , who could not rest For thoughts that burn the heart up of the young , One calm night from an opeti window lean'd : Gazing upon a bush with glow-worms hung , I ' the evening ere the denser dark survened , By her soft hand each fondled from its nest Of dewy green and there laid tenderly — Of little spirits of fire a radiant company !
VIII . And thereon as she gazed , and smiled , and wept , As changed the shadows of her fantasy , A solemn voice , as from its midst ascending , Along the bosom of the silence swept ; Whose meanings , with her thoughts serenely blending , Fix'd her faint dreams with its reality ; And holy seem'd if as the speech that came Unto the man of God from Horeb ' s bush of flame .
IX . "" O , old-time Temple of that Spirit of Grace ts Which made my youth a dream of loveliness !—»" Thus spake the voice— How deep , how deep in death < c Is that which gave the life of all this place ! tc Which to the airs lent all their odorous breath ; f € Without which trees and flowers were beau tiles *; " And Outward Nature was a dull cloud cold , t ( With no empurpling sun to flush it manifold .
X . " And , oh ! that warmth of comfort there within , ie Where hearts made perfect grace of homeliness , ' * And all was eloquence , impregn'd of love ; " And that celestial fire had origin " Which now is dust below or spirit above ; ' And is a passion still most fetterless "In thin time-beaten frame—a shatter'd shrine , " Where love in ages past heap ' d sacrifice divine !
XI . " Ay ; ages ! ages I— vast ; incalculable ; " Which figures reach not that do number Time , " And Memory , the solemn faculty , " Cannot up reckon with its lore sublime !—44 Worlds within world * of Dreamt that do compel " The shaped Soul from its Identity , " I live in ye a formlass , boundless thimr , " To whiob Appear ***) ail ii tbrfowf Vanishing ,
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The Shadow-seeker . 347
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/19/
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