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The Shadow-seeker . 849
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II . There seated , in a night of moonli ght splendour ; When , in the pure embrace of Dian chaste , The Stars seem'd stricken with voluptuousness ; Two Villagers reclined , in commune tender , The holy spirit of the scene to taste Upon each other ' s lips , and there impress The fervour of its beauty ' s eloquence ; Redeeming dust from dust—making a soul of sense .
IV . € t O , God ! at last I ' ve dared to wander hither ; " To stand above this scene of aJl the Past ! — " Of all my Past—of all The Past !—all ! all ! u , Grace ! whose glories ever dimly wither , " Tranced Contemplation , pallid thing aghast ! " Thus picturing thee , with sense equivocal , " To thee referreth and in thee involveth " All the Soul ' s thought of Time , and to a point resolveth ?
III . " Ab , Dear ! " said one , with gentlest blandishment , Whose gentler answer was a soul-warm sigh ; " O , God ! " said one unseen , whose solemn voice JDeep-quiver'd with emotion violent : " Ah , Dear I" came from Love ' s heart , and did rejoice With perfect sense of present ecstacy ; " O , God 1 " an utterance was from Love ' s dim tomb , And drown'd it as a lute an organ ' s thunderboom .
V . < f O , Image ! rise from thine unfathom'd grave f " Thy little feet were on this shining ground ; " Thy small hands touch'd this pontal parapet ; " Thy words and sighs did with these sweet airs sound , " And in them richly did thy ringlets wave ; " And thy clear eyes were in this glory set , " The central light of all its ornatnent , * ' And to and fro thy soul thro' all its spirit went .
VI . ' Fresh flowers ! sweet images of those that were ; " Their fair reflections in the glass of Time : " Green leaves ! bright shadows of that radiant life " Which your precursors on these trees did bear : t % They with her beauty seemM inspired and rife ; " And why not ye ? Ye wear the p how sublime u dead magnificence ; but reflc < none iC Comes to ~ the » e eyes of her—all shades to paragon I
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/21/
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