Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy; but this clay will sink Its spark immortal, envying it the light To which it mounts, as if to break the link That keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brink. Knight's Quarterly Magazine - Page 293edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
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