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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt:...Sabbath. Darkly that day rose: Antumn's mock sunshineof the faded woods Was all the life of it; for hard on these, A breathless burthen of low-folded heavens Stifled and chill'd at once: but every roof Sent out a listener: many too had known Edith among the hamlets round, and since The parents harshness and thehaplessloves And double death were widely murmur'd, (left Their own gray tower, or plain-faced taber(nacle, To hear him; all in mourning these, and (those With blots of it about them, ribbon, glove Or kerchief; while the church,--one night, (except For greenish glimmerings thro' the lancets, (--made Still paler thepale head of him, who tower'd Above them, with his hopes in either grave. Long o'er his bent browslinger'd Averill, His face magnetic to the hand from which Livid he pluck'd it forth, and labour'd thro' His brief prayer-prelude, gave the verse CBehold, Your house is left unto you desolate!" But lapsed into so long a pause again As half amazed half frighted all his flock; Then from his height and loneliness of (grief Bore down in flood, and dash'd his angry (heart Against the desolations of the world. Never since our bad earth becameone sea, Which rolling o'er the palaces of the proud, And all but those who knew the living (God--Eight that were left to make a purer (world--When since had flood, fire, earthquake, (thunder, wrought Such waste and havock as the idolatries, Which from the low light of morality Shot up their shadows to the Heaven of (Heavens, And worshipt their own darkness as the (Highest? „Gash thyself, priest, and honour thy h rute (Baal, And to thy worst self sacrifice thyself, For with thy worst.self hast thou clothed (thy God." Then came a Lord in no wise like to Baal. The babe shall lead the lion. Surely now...