And long the way appears, which seem'd so short To the less practised eye of sanguine youth ; And high the mountain-tops, in cloudy air, The mountain-tops where is the throne of Truth, Tops in life's morning-sun so bright and bare ! Unbreachable the fort... Macmillan's Magazine - Page 3121866Full view - About this book
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1888 - 588 pages
...transferring to his pages the " balmy darkness " of summer evenings, the dewy air and the moonlight. "And strange and vain the earthly turmoil grows, And...repose, And night as welcome as a friend would fall." What pathos and significance have these lines gained, in which he mourned the loss, even while he felt... | |
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