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Round him and above him surged the flood of rich and dulcet harmony, the sunset light through the blue and red stained-glass windows grew paler and paler the towering arches which sprang, as it were, from slender stem-like side-columns up to full-flowering boughs of Gothic ornamentation, crossing and re-crossing above the great High Altar, melted into a black dimness, and then all at once, without any apparent cause, a strange, vague suggestion of something supernatural and unseen began suddenly to oppress the mind of the venerable prelate with a curious sense of mingled awe and fear.
Numbers of fruit trees were bursting into blossom, the apple, the cherry, the pink almond and the orange blossom all waved together and whispered sweetness to one another in the pure air, and the full-flowering mimosa perfumed every breath of wind.
And midway, be your water stream or pool, Cross willow-twigs, and massy boulders fling A line of stations for the halting wing To dry in summer sunshine, has it shipped A cupful aft, or deep in Neptune dipped. Plant cassias green around, thyme redolent, Full-flowering succory with heavy scent, And violet-beds to drink the channel'd stream.
Me he rejects and others 'joy his favours in my stead. This is indeed the grace of God He gives to whom He will. As soon as he had finished his recitation, he sang the following verse in reply: My salutation to the shape that through the wede doth show And to the roses in the cheeks' full-flowering meads that blow!
Then his brave renunciation of rank, fortune, even of herself women glory in a moral hero one who has strength to lose even love, and bear its loss, for the sake of duty or of honour. His absence, too, might have done much: absence which smothers into decay a rootless fancy, but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love. Ay Maud loved him.
You are in a state of uncertainty most women live always in that state; and your vacillating soul like a bewildered butterfly you see I am copying the clerical example by dropping into poetry! and a butterfly, NOT a cigarette, is I believe the correct emblem of Psyche, " here he took a whiff at his cigar, and smiled pleasantly "your soul, I repeat, like a bewildered butterfly, has lighted by chance on a full-flowering parson.
Involuntarily her glance wandered to a framed photograph which stood on the mantelshelf, showing the likeness of a white-haired man standing among a group of full-flowering roses, with a smile upon his wrinkled face, a smile expressing the quaintest and most complete satisfaction, as though he sought to illustrate the fact that though he was old, he was still a part of the youthful blossoming of the earth in summer-time.
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