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5. The Wind took up the Northern Things The Wind took up the Northern Things And piled them in the south Then gave the East unto the West […]...
6. Take your Heaven further on Take your Heaven further on This to Heaven divine Has gone Had You earlier blundered in Possibly, e’en You had […]...
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18. Mount Houvenkopf Serene he stands, with mist serenely crowned, And draws a cloak of trees about his breast. The thunder roars but […]...
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20. At Night The wind is singing through the trees to-night, A deep-voiced song of rushing cadences And crashing intervals. No summer breeze […]...
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25. When I have seen the Sun emerge When I have seen the Sun emerge From His amazing House And leave a Day at every Door A Deed, […]...
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29. The Grass so little has to do The Grass so little has to do A Sphere of simple Green With only Butterflies to brood And Bees to […]...
30. Psalm 57 Praise for protection, grace, and truth. My God, in whom are all the springs Of boundless love, and grace unknown, […]...
31. Finery In an elegant frock, trimm’d with beautiful lace, And hair nicely curl’d, hanging over her face, Young Fanny went out […]...
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36. The earth has many keys The earth has many keys, Where melody is not Is the unknown peninsula. Beauty is nature’s fact. But witness for […]...
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