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...despairs, . . till God's own grace Could scarcely lift above the world forlorn My heavy heart. Then thou didst bid me bring And let it drop adown thy calmly...years ago, And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know A sweeter music than they played to me. But soon their trailing purple was not free Of this...

...despairs,.. till God's own grace Could scarcely lift above the world forlorn My heavy heart. Then thou didst bid me bring And let it drop adown thy calmly...precipitate, While thine doth close above it mediating XXVI. I LIVED with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle...

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...Which its own nature doth precipitate, While thine doth close above it mediating THE PORTUGUESE. 155 XXVI. I LIVED with visions for my company Instead...years ago, And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know A sweeter music than they played to me. But soon their trailing purple was not free Of this...

...despairs, . . till God's own grace Could scarcely lift above the world forlorn 31 y heavy heart. Then thou didst bid me bring And let it drop adown thy calmly...mediating Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate. I LIVED with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle mates,...

...despairs, till God's own grace Could scarcely lift above the world forlorn My heavy heart. Then thou didst bid me bring And let it drop adown thy calmly...years ago, And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know A sweeter music than they played to me. But soon their trailing purple was not free Of this...

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...radiant with heaven's glorious light, and penetrated with the sweetness of its love. Thus she sings : " I lived with visions for my company Instead of men...years ago, And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know A sweeter music than they played to me. But soon their trailing purple was not free Of this...

...her own. In one of the Sonnets from the Portuguese, she says, with strict autobiographic truth : " I lived with visions for my company Instead of men...years ago, And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know A sweeter music than they played to me." This long recluse life accounts for the unique and...