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sieg but loiter not in prague you do not know with whom you have to deal
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jos my siegendorf thank heaven i see you safe
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sieg no no i have no children: never more call me by that worst name of parent
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sieg ida beware there's blood upon that hand
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josepha since i have been a blight upon thy hope and marred alike the present and the future
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josepha the single voice of some lone traveller i'll to the door
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are you the vassal of these antient chiefs whose heir wastes elsewhere their fast melting hoards and placed to keep their cobwebs company
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werner what who i am or whence you are welcome sit you shall have cheer anon
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werner no no tis silent sir i say that voice whose is it speak
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carl pray heed him not he's phrenzy's next door neighbour and full of these strange starts and causeless jarrings
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'o noble roy de france regarde en pitie l'eglise en ballance
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pour dieu ne tarde plus o fils n'en faictz reffus
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arn you were the demon but that your approach was like one
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stran shapes with you if you will since yours so irks you or form you to your wish in any shape
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stran the brightest which the world e'er bore and give thee thy choice
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stran to mingle with the magic of the waters and make the charm effective
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stran not now a few drops will suffice for this
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arn let him pass his aspect may be fair but suits me not
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arn be that the man who shook the earth is gone and left no footstep
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stran to promise that but you may try and find it easier in such a form or in your own
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arn since i have risked my soul because i find not that which he exchanged the earth for
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stran thy cleopatra's waiting [the shade of antony disappears: another rises
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stran if there be atoms of him left or even of the more solid gold that formed his urn
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arn as if i were his soul whose form shall soon envelope mine
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'tis done he hath taken his stand in creation
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stran i will be as you were and you shall see yourself for ever by you as your shadow
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one little marshy spark of flame and he again shall seem the same but i his spirit's place shall hold
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arn is thickest that i may behold it in its workings
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stran as many attributes but as i wear a human shape will take a human name
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arn belongs to empire and has been but borne by the world's lords
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stran the devil in disguise since so you deem me unless you call me pope instead
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arn for myself my name shall be plain arnold still
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arn has been o'er carcasses: mine eyes are full of blood
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you must obey what all obey the rule of fixed necessity: against her edict rebellion prospers not
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the evening's first nightingale will be something new in the annals of great sieges for men must have their prey after long toil
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arn a reckless roundelay upon the eve of many deaths it may be of their own
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sans country or home we'll follow the bourbon to plunder old rome
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phil in such an enterprise to die is rather the dawn of an eternal day than death
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for you have seen that back as general placed in the rear in action but your foes have never seen it
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of your brave bands of their own bold accord will go to him the other half be sent more swiftly not less surely
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bourb slight crooked friend's as snake-like in his words as his deeds
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phil thou waxest insolent beyond the privilege of a buffoon
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oh ye seven hills awaken ere your very base be shaken
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ye who weep o'er carthage burning weep not strike for rome is mourning
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would not your highness choose to kiss the cross we have no priest here but the hilt of sword may serve instead: it did the same for bayard
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but let them fly the crimson kennels now will not much stain their stockings since the mire is of the self-same purple hue
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a precious sample of humanity well his blood's up and if a little's shed 'twill serve to curb his fever
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soldiers he speaks the truth the heretics will bear the best away
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other soldiers slay her although she had a thousand lives she hath killed our comrade
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ye jackals gnaw the bones the lion leaves but not even these till he permits
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arn rebel in hell you shall obey on earth [the soldiers assault arnold
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no injury and now thou wouldst preserve me to be but that shall never be
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olimp a perjury for which even hell would loathe thee i know thee
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a sprinkling of that same holy water may be useful [he brings some in his helmet from the font
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but somewhat late i' the day where shall we bear her i say she lives
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arn convey her unto the colonna palace where i have pitched my banner
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arn each day each hour each minute shows me more and more she loves me not
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you are beautiful and brave the first is much for passion and the rest for vanity
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now love in you is as the sun a thing beyond you and your jealousy's of earth a cloud of your own raising
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or has it ceased to kick against the pricks on shylock's shore behold them stand afresh to cut from nation's hearts their pound of flesh
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'suli's rock and parga's shore exists the remnant of a line such as the doric mothers bore
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how salt his food who fares upon another's bread how steep his path who treadeth up and down another's stairs
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immortal wellington with beak so curled that foremost corporal of all the world immortal wellington and flags unfurled
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that my fancy strayed the north and nature taught me to adore your scenes sublime from those beloved before
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as only a yet infant as only an infantine world as only a yet unweaned world
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loud o'er the plain is heard the northern blast mists shroud the hills and 'neath the growing gloom the weary traveller shrinks and sighs for home
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and since not even our rogers' praise to common sense his thoughts could raise why would they let him print his lays
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to me divine apollo grant o hermilda's first and second canto i'm fitting up a new portmanteau
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and thus to furnish decent lining my own and others' bays i'm twining so gentle thurlow throw me thine in
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when rogers o'er this labour bent their purest fire the muses lent t' illustrate this sweet argument
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how can you see me made the scoff of such a gipsy saucy jade
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who shot the arrow the poet-priest milman or southey or barrow
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i curse not for my heart is lost in thine though thou forsakest a deceived thing a dove forlorn and lost with sick unpruned wing
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though i have found i will not rob thy nest saving of thy sweet self if thou think'st well to trust fair madeline to no rude infidel
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saturn sat near the mother of the gods in whose face was no joy though all the gods gave from their hollow throats the name of saturn
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the earth is glad: the merry lark has pour'd his early song against yon breezy sky that spreads so clear o'er our solemnity
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these things with all their comfortings are given to my down-sunken hours and with thee sweet sister help to stem the ebbing sea
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this said he rose faint-smiling like a star through autumn mists and took peona's hand they stept into the boat and launch'd from land
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dew-dropping melody in the carian's ear first heaven then hell and then forgotten clear vanish'd in elemental passion
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hither most gentle sleep and soothing foil for some few hours the coming solitude
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they sound as through the whispering of trees not native in such barren vaults give ear
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o moon far-spooming ocean bows to thee and tellus feels his forehead's cumbrous load
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of squirrels foxes shy and antler'd deer and birds from coverts innermost and drear warbling for very joy mellifluous sorrow
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my fever'd parchings up my scathing dread met palsy half way: soon these limbs became gaunt wither'd sapless feeble cramp'd and lame
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he mark'd their brows and foreheads saw their hair put sleekly on one side with nicest care and each one's gentle wrists with reverence
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speechless they eyed each other and about the fair assembly wander'd to and fro distracted with the richest overflow
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all suddenly were silent a soft blending of dulcet instruments came charmingly
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thee gentle lady did he disenthral ye shall for ever live and love for all thy tears are flowing
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enlarge not to my hunger or i'm caught in trammels of perverse deliciousness no no that shall not be: thee will i bless
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as they contribute to its character as leader of the nations unto right by thought or deed in service for mankind
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to get the races by degrees together to talk their grievance over in a voice as gentle as a woman's
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harvesting at cullowhee n c where the townhouse used to stand
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they issue forth and we who never knew till then how potent and how real they were take them and wonder and so bless the hour
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the glinting snowdrifts lie there is no voice or living sound the embers slowly die
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aye thus it is heaven gleams and then is gone once twice it smiles and still we wander on
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for one boy's sake a poor girl's heart must break so sweet so true and yet it could not be
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hail his name for the new made light pitch and the flesh of the galileans torches fit for a roman night
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art angry nino 'tis no monk that cries but sweet leonora with her love-lit eyes
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and yet i think he loved me too my mood was not unpleasant to him though i know at times i teased him with my flickering talk
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tho' the biting north wind breaks full across this drifted hold watching westward as of old
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