April 27, 2009 | Comments | Romances of Death
Dicebant mihi sodales, si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas. –Ebn Zaiat. MISERY is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch, —as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow! [...]
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February 15, 2009 | Comments | Romances of Death
Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitot qu’on le touche il resonne. De Beranger. DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length [...]
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January 19, 2009 | Comments | Romances of Death
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the Shadow: Psalm of David. YE who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows. For indeed strange things shall happen, and secret things be known, and many centuries shall pass away, ere [...]
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