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848 The Shadow-seeker .
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XII . " O , that Definement should be now so vague , " That of that Substance fine no spectral shade " Can I again create , to solace sense t ( With faintest outline of its excellence I " The pic tu rings which my youth-hot fancy made " Of the rough Roman ' s world-entangling plague , < f In her swarth majesty voluptuous ; " And of the fair brow'd Greek , as loving-ruinous ;
XIV . " O , Image ! whose dread loss to me is vast " As to the High and Infinite Creator " Were that of the Idea of his Creation , < e Blush forth again from that chaotic Matter <( Which masseth up my brain in desolation ! " Or , come thou , Death ! as doth a thunderblast (( Thorough dense-vapor d Space ; scatter my Being , " And drive essential Sight into its depths unseeing ! "
XIII . € t And of all Women verse immortalised , cr That pain'd with their exceeding lovelinesses , * Still in my soul maintain their first bright semblance *—€ t Eyed , lipp'd , and Hrab'd : but no defined resemblance , " In human flgurement and vestment guised , if Haunts me of her ! Yet in her trickling tresses " Have I been intertangled and encalrn'd * Sweetly upon her breast as dews on flowers embalm'd .
XV . The voice was silent and the window closed ; And on her pillow wondering and weeping Lay all night long that lovely Cottager ; A subtle passion-taught interpreter Of that phantasmal speech . Nor then reposed Ker hoi } ' sense of awe , but aye kept sweeping Over her soul , when in the village-ring She heard of that Old Man by midnight wandering .
Part II . I . One pathway to that little Village curved Across an ancient , triple-arched bridge , Which overapann'd a tranquil river-course ; And underneath whose centre stretch'd a ridge Of moss'd and thickly-branching oak , that served For way from bank to bank the stream across To the two-nattired creatures of the place , Ajid to the water clear was a * an eyebrow * * grte * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 348, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/20/
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