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THE WORLD OF BEAUTY AROUND US . HORACE MANN . A HIGHER and holier world than the world of Ideas , or the world of Beauty , lies around us ; and we find ourselves endued with susceptibilities which affiliate us to all its purity and its ...
THE WORLD OF BEAUTY AROUND US . HORACE MANN . A HIGHER and holier world than the world of Ideas , or the world of Beauty , lies around us ; and we find ourselves endued with susceptibilities which affiliate us to all its purity and its ...
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He rends the oak , -and bids it ride , To guard the shores its beauty graced ; He smites the rock , -upheaved in pride , See towers of strength and domes of taste . Earth's teaming caves their wealth reveal , Fire bears his banner on ...
He rends the oak , -and bids it ride , To guard the shores its beauty graced ; He smites the rock , -upheaved in pride , See towers of strength and domes of taste . Earth's teaming caves their wealth reveal , Fire bears his banner on ...
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Earth is vailed And mantled with its beauty ; and the walls , That close the universe with crystal in , Are eloquent with voices , that proclaim The unseen glories of immensity , In harmonies too perfect and too high For aught but ...
Earth is vailed And mantled with its beauty ; and the walls , That close the universe with crystal in , Are eloquent with voices , that proclaim The unseen glories of immensity , In harmonies too perfect and too high For aught but ...
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