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And when heaven uncloses its doors of light, when all its knowledge, its purity, its bliss, rises on the eye and passes into the soul, who then will be looked on as the one who might be envied he who can, or he who cannot feel? "Few, save the poor, feel for the poor; The rich know not how hard It is to be of needful food And needful rest debarred.
I will be silent as a shade, motionless as a statue; and if I kiss you for, after all, I have my weaknesses it will be done with a thousand precautions, my lips will scarcely brush your sleeping shoulder; and if you quiver with pleasure as you stretch out your arms, if your eye half uncloses at the murmur of my kiss, if your lips smile at me, if I kiss you, it would be because you would like me to, and I shall have nothing to reproach myself with.
I will be silent as a shade, motionless as a statue; and if I kiss you for, after all, I have my weaknesses it will be done with a thousand precautions, my lips will scarcely brush your sleeping shoulder; and if you quiver with pleasure as you stretch out your arms, if your eye half uncloses at the murmur of my kiss, if your lips smile at me, if I kiss you, it would be because you would like me to, and I shall have nothing to reproach myself with.
She uncloses the carved coffers, and passes through her long fingers the wedding garments of brides turned to dust centuries ago the silver veils, bridal crowns, and quaintly-cut robes of taffetas and brocade, once white, now turned to dingy yellow. She assures herself that all is in its place.
Andrew Lang suggests in an exquisite little poem about the Homeric Phæacia the land whose inhabitants were friends of the gods, a sort of heaven upon earth." And then she quoted: The languid sunset, mother of roses, Lingers, a light on the magic seas; The wide fire flames as a flower uncloses; Heavy with odour and loose to the breeze.
Day by day the shadow flits beside him; morning after morning he uncloses his sad eyes upon a world, which he had found so sweet, and which he now sees to be so terrible; the insistent horror breeds a whole troop of spectres, so that all the quiet experiences of life, friendship, love, nature, art, become big with uneasy speculations and surmises; from the rampart-platform by the sea until the peal of ordnance is shot off, as the poor bodies are carried out, every moment brings with it some shocking or brooding experience.
O brightness on brightness! the pearl gate uncloses! O white wings of angels! O fields white with roses! O white tents of peace, where the rapt soul reposes O the waters so still, and the pastures so green!" The brief hints afforded us by the sacred writings concerning the better land are inspiring and beautiful.
"Here the hand of April, unwashed from slaying Earth's fallen tyrant for Winter is dead, Uncloses anemones, staining them red: And her daffodils guard me in squads, displaying Intrepid lances lest wisdom tread Where I loiter and dream to the branches' swaying "Well, Harry, and to-day I cannot do so any longer.
The sick man leaves his weary pillow, and finds strength to wander hither, though his wasted limbs might not support him even to the threshold of his chamber. The exile passes through the Hall of Fantasy to revisit his native soil. The burden of years rolls down from the old man's shoulders the moment that the door uncloses.
Under its tender moistening touch his frame, desiccated in the tropics, seemed to open out, even as a withered flower uncloses its petals in water. In Africa all this thoughts and energies had been concentrated upon a single point. Here he expanded. New interests, new sensations, seemed to lie in wait for him.
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