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" Strikes thro' their wounded hearts the sudden dread; But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close ; where past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains ; The parted wave no furrow from the keel; So dies in human... "
The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature - Page 125
1836
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close ; where, past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains ; The parted...keel; So dies in human hearts the thought of death. Ev'n with the tender tear which nature sheds O'er those wo love, we drop it in their grave." His Universal...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close ; where past the shaft no trace is found, As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted...keel ; So dies in human hearts the thought of death. THE MAN WHOSE THOUGHTS ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD.2 SOME angel guide my pencil, while I draw — What nothing...
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The Christian lyre, a selection of religious and moral poetry

Christian lyre - 1846 - 188 pages
...wounded, like the wounded air, FAREWELL. 73 Soon close ; where passed the shaft no trace is found, As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted...keel, So dies in human hearts the thought of death : Even with the tender tear which nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave. YOUNG....
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Thoughts on the Poets

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pages
...the wounded air, Soon close ; where passed the shaft, no trace is found, As from the wing no stain the sky retains ; The parted wave no furrow from the...; So dies, in human hearts, the thought of death. Like birds, whose beauties languish half-concealed, Till mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes Expanded,...
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A Series of Revival Sermons

Daniel Baker - 1846 - 384 pages
...wounded heart, The sudden dread! another moment, and alas! where past the shaft no trace is found, , As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted wave, no furrow from the keel." The rock may be rived, but it is rock still. It may be broken into a thousand fragments, but there...
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The Sunday School Magazine, Volume 6

1846 - 356 pages
...wounded heart, The sudden dread ! another moment, and alas ! where past the shaft no trace is found, As from the wing no scar the sky retains. The parted wave, no furrow from the keel.' The rock may be riven, but it is rock still. It may be broken into a thousand fragments, but there...
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The Journey of Life

Catherine Sinclair - 1847 - 400 pages
...We never saw by day. HEBER. CHAP. vm. THE EFFORTS OF MAN TO UNDERSTAND HIS OWN NATURE AND DESTINY. As from the wing, no scar the sky retains, The parted...keel, So dies in human hearts the thought of death. YOUNG. IT is both interesting and very remarkable to observe the pains taken, in ancient days, by heathen...
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Ship and Shore: In Madeira, Lisbon, and the Mediterranean

Walter Colton - 1860 - 342 pages
...to its ocean grave. Yet how soon is such a scene forgotten ! » " As from the wing the sky no scar retains, The parted wave no furrow from the keel, So dies in human hearts th^ thought of death." There is something peculiarly melancholy and impressive in a burial at sea :...
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Readings from the best authors, ed. by A.H. Bryce, Issue 10

Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close ; where, past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains ; The parted...keel: So dies in human hearts the thought of death : E'en with the tender tear which nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave. VII.—THE...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where, past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing, no scar the sky retains; The parted...keel; So dies in human hearts the thought of death: E'en with the tender tear which nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave. LIFE AND...
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