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He did not suffer much pain, but languor and restlessness overpowered him often; and then the strong, kind arms of his elder brother never were wearied, even when the harvest-days were longest, but bore him from bed to couch, and from couch to bed again, till he could rest at last.
"That so the mortar that cements each stone within the shrine, For her dear sake whom God did take, may all be mixed with wine." 'Twas thus the baron built his tower; and, as the story tells, A fragrance rare bewitched the air whene'er they rang the bells. A merrier music tinkled down when harvest-days were long: They seemed to chime at vintage-time a catch of vintage-song;
The fresh harrow-lines seemed to stretch like the channellings in a piece of new corduroy, lending a meanly utilitarian air to the expanse, taking away its gradations, and depriving it of all history beyond that of the few recent months, though to every clod and stone there really attached associations enough and to spare echoes of songs from ancient harvest-days, of spoken words, and of sturdy deeds.
All through the long harvest-days the mother failed slowly so slowly that even the watchful eyes of Shenac did not see how surely. Then, as the autumn wore away, and the increasing cold no longer permitted the daily sitting in the sunshine, the change became more rapid. Then there was a time of sharper suffering.
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