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"The ugly bear now minded not the stake, Nor how the cruel mastiffs do him tear, The stag lay still unroused from the brake, The foamy boar feared not the hunter's spear: All thing was still in desert, bush, and briar:" Thomas Sackville; "The Complaint of Henry Duke of Buckingham," lxxxi.
"Till sight and hearing ache For something that may keep The awful inner sense Unroused, lest it should mark The life that haunts the emptiness And horror of the dark." Face to face with the impenetrable mystery, with the thought of those whom we have loved, who have slipped without a word or a sign over the dark threshold, what wonder if we beat with unavailing hands against the closed door?
Here it flowed calmly, reflecting the sunset, a giant with its energies untaxed and its passions unroused a kindly St. Christopher, yet capable of being transformed into a destroying Thor. Far away, seen over a low projecting point of land, white sails gleamed now and then, as ships moved upon the lake from whence the river came; and nearer, upon the great stream itself, a few boats were idling.
His limbs were regaining the strength of adolescence, but more perceptive sensations remained unroused. He spent whole afternoons in gazing out on the Paradou, pouting like a child that sees nought but whiteness and hears but the vibration of sounds.
For it depends on circumstance, which of the chances that slumber within us shall awake, and which shall fall unroused with us into the darkness.
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