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ay whole schools of doctors with their learned rules but the case is quite beyond their science
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woe woe eternal woe
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this o brave physician this is thy great palingenesis
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golden visions wave and hover golden vapors waters streaming landscapes moving changing gleaming
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what ho that merry sudden blast reminds me of the days long past
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no banner flying from the walls no pages and no seneschals no warders and one porter only
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no if you please a strange mysterious disease fell on him with a sudden blight
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oh horrible fate outcast rejected as one with pestilence infected
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still in my soul that cry goes on forever gone forever gone
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ah what a cruel sense of loss like a black shadow would fall across the hearts of all if he should die
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the day is done and slowly from the scene the stooping sun up-gathers his spent shafts and puts them back into his golden quiver
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yes there it flows forever broad and still as when the vanguard of the roman legions first saw it from the top of yonder hill
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a stranger and alone among that brotherhood the monk felix stood
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it was as if i dreamed for what to me had seemed moments only had been hours
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upon thy forehead he will place not his crown of thorns but a crown of roses
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in his room overhead i heard him walking across the floor as he always does with a heavy tread
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poor prince alas and yet as mild and patient as the gentlest child
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no not the stork by god in heaven as a blessing the dear white stork was given but the prince has given us all the rest
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yes if the dear god does not take pity upon him in his distress and work a miracle
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i am glad he is dead it will be a warning to the wolves in the forest far and wide
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see how she nods her heavy head and her sleepy feet are so unsteady she will hardly be able to creep upstairs
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for she has visions and strange dreams and in all her words and ways she seems much older than she is in truth
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i am disturbed and much distressed in thinking our dear prince must die i cannot close mine eyes nor rest
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what dost thou mean my child my child
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that for our dear prince henry's sake i will myself the offering make and give my life to purchase his
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i saw our little gertrude die she left off breathing and no more i smoothed the pillow beneath her head
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my child my child thou must not die
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why should i live do i not know the life of woman is full of woe
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i cannot rest until my sight is satisfied with seeing thee what then if thou wert dead
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whether it be a dark temptation of the evil one or god's inspiration we in our blindness cannot say
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i almost shuddered at her kiss as if a ghost had touched my cheek i am so childish and so weak
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go sin no more thy penance o'er a new and better life begin
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o blessed lord how much i need thy light to guide me on my way
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what wrong repressed what right maintained what struggle passed what victory gained what good attempted and attained
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the poor in body and estate the sick and the disconsolate must not on man's convenience wait
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god was my foster he fostered me under the book of the palm-tree
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i wonder that any man has the face to call such a hole the house of the lord and the gate of heaven yet such is the word
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underneath this mouldering tomb with statue of stone and scutcheon of brass slumbers a great lord of the village
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he comes in the twilight he will not see the difference between his priest and me
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remorseful penitent and lowly i come to crave o father holy thy benediction on my head
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thou art a prince if thou shouldst die what hearts and hopes would prostrate lie
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with thee a noble name expires and vanishes from the earth's face the glorious memory of thy sires
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if justice rules the universe from the good actions of good men angels of light should be begotten
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maledictione perpetua maledicat vos pater eternus
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noble art thou in thy birth by the good and the great of earth hast thou been taught
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the mother's heart resists no longer with the angel of the lord in vain it wrestled for he was the stronger
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my life is little only a cup of water but pure and limpid
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it is given willingly it is given freely may god bless the gift
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thy words fall from thy lips like roses from the lips of angelo: and angels might stoop to pick them up
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sleepless and restless i alone in the dusk and damp of these walls of stone wander and weep in my remorse
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they rise up and their garments wave dimly and spectral as they rise with the light of another world in their eyes
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wake not beloved be thy sleep silent as night is and as deep
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friend can you tell me where alight thuringia's horsemen for the night
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my hopes are high my heart is proud and like a trumpet long and loud thither my thoughts all clang and ring
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our journey into italy perchance together we may make wilt thou not do it for my sake
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what ho good people do you not hear
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dashing along at the top of his speed booted and spurred on his jaded steed a courier comes with words of cheer
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christ is arisen whence come you from court
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christ is arisen whence come you from town
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and here comes a third who is spurring amain what news do you bring with your loose-hanging rein your spurs wet with blood and your bridle with foam
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christ is arisen whence come you from rome
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but hark the bells are beginning to chime and i feel that i am growing hoarse
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and the wheel wherewith it is swayed and rung is the mind of man that round and round sways and maketh the tongue to sound
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such columns and such arches and such windows so many tombs and statues in the chapels and under them so many confessionals
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they must be for the rich i should not like to tell my sins in such a church as this
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a great master of his craft erwin von steinbach but not he alone for many generations labored with him
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see too the rose above the western portal resplendent with a thousand gorgeous colors the perfect flower of gothic loveliness
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when in the garden placed by thee the fruit of the forbidden tree he ate and he must die
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it can by thee alone be done by thee the victory shall be won o'er satan and the fall
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here the angel gabriel shall leave paradise and fly towards the earth the jaws of hell open below and the devils walk about making a great noise
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the angels of the planets seven across the shining fields of heaven the natal star we bring
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dropping our sevenfold virtues down as priceless jewels in the crown of christ our new-born king
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i am the angel of the moon darkened to be rekindled soon beneath the azure cope
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nearest to earth it is my ray that best illumes the midnight way i bring the gift of hope
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he is the high priest of the dove and sends from his great throne above justice that shall atone
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the planet mercury whose place is nearest to the sun in space is my allotted sphere
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and with celestial ardor swift i hear upon my hands the gift of heavenly prudence here
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though in a manger thou draw breath thou art greater than life and death greater than joy or woe
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though humbly born in bethlehem a sceptre and a diadem await thy brow and hand
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hark how the robins shout and sing as if to hail their infant king
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what ho i fain would drink a can of the strong wine of canaan
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may maledictions fall and blast thyself and lineage to the last of all thy kith and kin
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would i were dead would i were dead and buried in the ground
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see how the stream has overflowed its banks and o'er the meadow road is spreading far and wide
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now will i make them sing and soar so far they shall return no more unto this river's brink
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fly fly ye sparrows you are free
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thou art a sorcerer i know oft has my mother told me so i will not play with thee
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ye wicked boys why do ye play and break the holy sabbath day
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come hither judas iscariot say if thy lesson thou hast got from the rabbinical book or not
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now little jesus the carpenter's son let us see how thy task is done canst thou thy letters say
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with fragrant flowers thy head is crowned while like a guard we stand around and hail thee as our king
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nor let the passers-by refuse to bring that homage which men use to majesty to bring
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at the close of which we shall accord by way of benison and reward the sight of a holy martyr's bones
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in its veins the blood is hot and red and a heart still beats in those ribs of oak that time may have tamed but has not broke
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in particular wurzburg well may boast of its blessed wine of the holy ghost which of all wines i like the most
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what a delicious fragrance springs from the deep flagon while it fills as of hyacinths and daffodils
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it is growing dark yet one line more and then my work for to-day is o'er
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it has a very awful look as it stands there at the end of the book like the sun in an eclipse
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the dusty road is brown with rain and speeding on with might and main hitherward rides a gallant train
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what a fair lady and beside her what a handsome graceful noble rider
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