Woman in Sacred History: A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical and Legendary Sources, by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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... rests reclined ; Strange shapes he views , and drinks with wondering ears The voices of the dead and songs of other years . Such , the faint echo of departed praise , Still sound Arabia's legendary lays ; And thus their fabling bards ...
... rests reclined ; Strange shapes he views , and drinks with wondering ears The voices of the dead and songs of other years . Such , the faint echo of departed praise , Still sound Arabia's legendary lays ; And thus their fabling bards ...
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... rests not here , the beautiful of feature , For whom her Jacob wrought his years twice o'er , And deemed them but as one , for that fair creature , -- So dear the love he bore , - Nor Israel's son beloved , * who brought him sleeping ...
... rests not here , the beautiful of feature , For whom her Jacob wrought his years twice o'er , And deemed them but as one , for that fair creature , -- So dear the love he bore , - Nor Israel's son beloved , * who brought him sleeping ...
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... rest ! but Hagar found No shelter in the wilderness , and on She kept her weary way , until the boy Hung down his head , and opened his parched lips For water ; but she could not give it him . She laid him down beneath the sultry sky ...
... rest ! but Hagar found No shelter in the wilderness , and on She kept her weary way , until the boy Hung down his head , and opened his parched lips For water ; but she could not give it him . She laid him down beneath the sultry sky ...
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... rest . How many such women there are , pretty and charming , and holding men's hearts like a fortress , of whom a biographer could say nothing only that they were much beloved ! When Jacob flees from Laban with his family , we find ...
... rest . How many such women there are , pretty and charming , and holding men's hearts like a fortress , of whom a biographer could say nothing only that they were much beloved ! When Jacob flees from Laban with his family , we find ...
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... rests his head , his bones ; Heaven was his canopy ; the shades of night Were his drawn curtains , to exclude the light ... rest my bones , my head ; With Him , my wants can never prove extreme ; With Jacob's pillow give me Jacob's dream ...
... rests his head , his bones ; Heaven was his canopy ; the shades of night Were his drawn curtains , to exclude the light ... rest my bones , my head ; With Him , my wants can never prove extreme ; With Jacob's pillow give me Jacob's dream ...
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