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else alone thou goest forth thy face unto the north moor and pleasance all around thee and beneath thee looking equal in one snow while i who try to reach thee vainly follow vainly follow from queens gardens with the farewell and the hollo and cannot reach thee so
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my bindings up would break thee my crownings curse and kill alas i can but love thee may god bless thee my beloved may god bless thee
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the world thou hast heard it told has counted its robber-gold and the pieces stick to the hand the world goes riding it fair and grand while the truth is bought and sold
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thou standest alone as the nightingale sings yet my words that would praise thee are impotent things for none can express thee though all should approve thee i love thee so dear that i only can love
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i love thee with a love i seemed to lose with my lost saints i love thee with the breath smiles tears of all my life and if god choose i shall but love thee better after death
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sold world-voice east world-voices west they call thee heart from thine early rest come hither come hither and be our guest heart wilt thou go no no good hearts are calmer so
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what blessing word can i from mine own tears keep dry what flowers grow in my field wherewith to dress thee my good reverts to ill my calmnesses would move thee my softnesses would prick thee
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alas i can but bless thee may god teach thee my beloved may god teach thee can i bless thee my beloved can i bless thee
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where the hawk hath his wing unfurled to follow perhaps thy way where the tamer thine own will bind and to make thee sing will blind while the little hip grows for the free behind heart wilt thou go no no free hearts are better so
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who calleth thee heart world's strife with a golden heft to his knife world's mirth with a finger fine that draws on a board in wine her blood-red plans of life world's gain with a brow knit down calls of the heart world's fame with a laurel crown which rustles most as the leaves turn brown
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and what is this place not seen where hearts may hide serene t is a fair still house well-kept which humble thoughts have swept and holy prayers made clean
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heart wilt thou go no no calm hearts are wiser so hast heard that proserpina once fooling was snatched away to partake the dark king's seat and that the tears ran fast on her feet to think how the sun shone yesterday
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can i love thee my beloved can i love thee and is this like love to stand with no help in my hand when strong as death i fain would watch above
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with her ankles sunken in asphodel she wept for the roses of earth which fell from her lap when the wild car drave to hell heart wilt thou go no no wise hearts are warmer so
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there i sit with love in the sun and we two never have done singing sweeter songs than are guessed by onet heart wilt thou go no no warm hearts are fuller so
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but if it were not so if i could find no love in all the world for comforting nor any path but hollowly did ring where dust to dustthe love from life disjoined
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my love-kiss can deny no tears that fall beneath it mine oath of love can swear thee from no ill that comes near thee and thou diest while i breathe it and i can but die may god love thee my beloved may god love thee
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but this true love of mine clings fast as the clinging vine and mingles pure as the grapes in wine heart wilt thou go no no full hearts beat higher so
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and death has quickened his pace to the hearth with a mocking face familiar as love in love's own place heart wilt thou go still no high hearts must grieve even so
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o heart o love i fear that love may be kept too near hast heard o heart that tale how love may be false and frail to a heart once holden dear
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the house is waste to-day the leaf has dropt from the spray the thorn prickt through to the song if summer doeth no wrong a man's requirements the winter will they say
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and if before those sepulchres unmoving i stood alone as some forsaken lamb goes bleating up the moors in weary dearth crying where are ye o my loved and loving i know a voice would sound daughter i am can i suffice for heaven and not for earth
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truth is fair should we forego it can we sigh right for a wrong god himself is the best poet and the real is his song sing his truth out fair and full and secure his beautiful
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christ hath sent us down the angels and the whole earth and the skies are illumed by altar-candles truth lit for blessed mysteries and a priest's hand through creation waveth calm and consecration
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say what can i do for thee weary thee grieve thee lean on thy shoulder new burdens to add weep my tears over thee making thee sad
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o brave poets keep back nothing nor mix falsehood with the whole look up godward speak the truth in worthy song from earnest soul hold in high poetic duty truest truth the fairest beauty
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what is true and just and honest what is lovely what is pure all of praise that hath admonish'd all of virtue shall endure these are themes for poets uses stirring nobler than the muses
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the day was perfect and the scenery along the palisades had never looked more beautiful yet dawn saw nothing of it she sat by the rail looking gloomily down into the water
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as the days dragged by she grew to have a haunted look and the rose flush on her sweet round cheek faded to a marble white while under her eyes were dark circles
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and that he had disliked to postpone the marriage or to tell of his predicament feeling sure that he would have the money by the time the payment was due naturally his wife's fortune would suffice to pay for the house which of course she would not let go then
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with a promise to pay the balance soon after the marriage the young man had laid his plans nicely and meant to profess that some investment of his had failed making it impossible for him to make the final payments
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it was not the first time this thought had entered her mind the week before she left the school she had thought of it seriously and even planned the route but always at night there had come that fearful dream of her future husband following her and bringing her home to a life-long punishment
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the day that dawn left school to go back to her home was one long agony to her all the other girls were happy in the thought of home-going some of them looking forward to returning for another year others to entering into a bright girlhood filled with gaieties
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she had almost got her courage up to the point of deciding to disappear in the crowd at albany and so elude the people with whom she was expected to journey to her home when to her dismay she looked down at the landing-place where they were stopping a few miles below albany and saw her father coming on board the boat
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and with unwonted elaboration commended her judgment in selecting so old and so fine a family as that of the house of winthrop with which to ally herself he added that it would have pleased her mother's family and that mr winthrop was one of his oldest and most valued friends
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she was glad in her heart that the day of the wedding was close at hand for if she knew anything about signs that girl was on the verge of throwing over a fine marriage and then they would have her on their hands for years perhaps
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mrs van rensselaer had suffered not a little for her share in the tragedy of these lives with which she had bound up her own and was not willing to endure more she shut her thin lips and determined to watch the girl carefully and prevent if possible any slip between cup and lip
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after that dawn endured her misery in secret speaking not at all unless spoken to the older woman looked at her curiously almost nervously sometimes as if the girl were half uncanny
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yes there was some one else enshrined within her heart some one whose face had smiled in sympathy just once and toward whom she felt as she had never felt to any human being save her mother
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just the day before her home-going there came one of these letters in which he told her that everything had been prepared for her marriage to take place within a week after her arrival
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of course he was nothing to her but the vision of a moment and never never could he be called by the hateful word her stepmother had used that detestable word beau it seemed to the poor tried child as if she could almost kill any one who used that word
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he told her of the trousseau which his wife had prepared for her which was as elaborate and complete as such an outfit could be for one of her station in life he also spoke about the dignity of her origin
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somehow that letter seemed to dawn to put the seal of finality upon her fate there was no turning back now just as her father used to compel her to go upstairs alone
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and that it would be a dreadful thing to break a tie like that this was made stronger by her father's letters which now grew more frequent as if he sought to atone to his motherless child for the wrong he had done her
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the family relatives on both sides were gathering and starting some on long journeys to attend the wedding chapter five
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when the time came to leave the school she clung with such fervor about the neck of the impassive friend ruth that the astonished lady almost lost her breath and a strange wild thrill went through her unmotherly bosom as of something that might have been and was lost
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when he discovered that she was afraid of the dark so she felt that if he once discovered her dislike for her future husband he would but hasten the marriage and be in league with her husband against her always
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she looked earnestly down into the beautiful face of the girl who had so often defied her rules and saw an appeal in those lovely eyes to which she would most certainly have responded had she understood for she was a good woman and always sought to do her best
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still wondering what had come over her wild young pupil somehow as she watched the steamer plough away until dawn was a mere blur with the others friend ruth could not help being glad that the beautiful dark curls had never been cut
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meantime with ever-growing dread dawn counted the hours and watched sleepless through the long nights now calling on her dead mother for help now praying to be saved in some way from the nameless fear which try as she would she could not shake off
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but the boat left at once and clinging arms had perforce to be removed once on the deck with the others dawn looked back at friend ruth as impassively as always though the usually calm face of the woman searched her out with troubled glance
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he had not expected to be able to meet her and had written that she was to come with acquaintances of his her heart stood still in panic and for a moment she looked wildly at the rail of the steamer as if she might climb over and escape
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then in a moment her father had seen her and stood beside her he stooped and kissed her forehead coldly almost shyly this startled her too
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but the stern face was cold as ever and his voice conveyed no smallest part of the emotion he felt at sight of her lovely face he talked to her gravely of her school life
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and then he went on to speak of the winthrop family and to tell her in detail bits of its history calculated to make her understand its importance dawn listened with growing alarm at the thought of all that would be expected of her yet not a breath of her trouble did she allow her father to see
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for he had not kissed her since the days before her mother was sent away and a strange sharp pain went through her heart a pang of things that might have been she looked up in wonder she did not know how like her dead mother she had grown
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it might have made a difference if she could have known how her father's heart was aching with the anguish of his great mistake and perhaps if the father could have known the breaking of the young heart it might have melted the coldness of his reserve and brought some sympathy to the surface
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i must just put him to nurse and provide for him i do suppose and keep all quiet and ye look out some decent poor body that lives lonely and won't ask no questions nor give no trouble but be content wi a trifle and i'll gi'e't to you every quarter for her
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with the ferocity of despair for her life but the chance that might have so transformed her did not come flight was her one thought and that ended suddenly for tripping in the upturned carpet she fell helplessly to the iioor
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well now master charles is under the mould i wouldn't spare her what for shouldn't mrs fairfield make her pay for the pipe she danced to it's her turn now when you are anvil hold you still when you are hammer strike your fill
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leaned forward with sharpened features but neither extended her arm nor attempted to rise then she sighed deeply and leaned with her shoulders to the wall
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it's too high a flight i'm told to touch urra firma wi the top o your toe the gallows i mean and that's what you're coming to quick i'm afeard
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how is miss ally how is your mistress at last he inquired abruptly only middling ailing sir answered mildred dryly
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off in a coach for this bout thought harr thank you kind lad always the same she sneered quietly you wish it no doubt but no you don't think it i know better
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and as for alice she won't neither but if you don't sign that paper by this day week and make no bones about it here he swore a hard oath blind as you be i'll open your eyes and i'll prosecute the indictment myself good-by ma'am and fu'nk between this and then
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but he's plaguy obstinate we'll try to-night what dividing the pills into four each and shortening the intervals a little will do it sometimes does wonders we'll see
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and did ye never hear that true jests breed bad blood he laughed but no matter i'm not a bit riled and i won't i like ye better for speaking out i hate that mealymouthed talk that fine-spoken folk goes on wi
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thus charged mildred tamley went away and in a few minutes old dulcibella appeared from her after he had examined her as to the state of the lady upstairs and of her baby he exacted the same promise as that which mildred had made him a promise write often to wyvem
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alice got up and throwing her dressing-gown about her shoulders opened the window-shutter and looked out upon the serene and melancholy landscape which this old-fashioned window with its clumsy sashes and small panes commanded
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and she'll never hear my name mind nor be the wiser who owns it or where it came from i'd rayther she thought twas a poor body's if they think a fellow's well-to-do it makes em unreasonable
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ye may say so svie said v a discontented emphasis i tell you a thing in a minute old tarnley only they say old vessels must leak will you be staunch will ye hold your tongue on't if i tell you a thing
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pleasant was my harry always again sneered the lady and ye heard of poor charlie of course he asked yes of course every one is not like you i did hear i don't thank you she answered tartly and turned her pale malignant face toward him
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that's not a geranium it's a pelargonium i did not know there were such things down here and you'll continue i told her everything else and go on just as before and you think he's better i mean just a little she pleaded again
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i was goin to send over there but doctor willett said no did he why not yet a bit he says she'd be in his way and no use and maybe worrit her into a fever very like said harry and how's lyve ion ti a boy
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alice watched the doctor's countenance with her very soul in her eyes as he made his inspection standing at the bedside and now and then putting a question to dulcibella or to alice or to the nurse whom he had sent to do duty in the sick-room from wykeford
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get mr archdale some luncheon clinton and some sherry i thank you sir said the sergeant major tis more like a supper for me ive had my dinner sir some time and with a stiff military step the sergeant followed clinton into the house
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sweet and sad these moonlit views that so well accord with certain moods but the cares at alice's heart were real and returned as she quite awoke with a renewed pang and the cold and mournful glory of the sky and silvered woodlands neither cheered nor soothed her
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