But for the gazer’s longing hand too high.
| [1] | Published in Walz, Rhetor. Græc. 8. 883. |
TWO HOURS OF DOOM.
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BY MRS. JULIET H. L. CAMPBELL.
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HOUR I.—A Betrothal.
The princes of the night came, one by one, into the halls of Heaven, and each, from his refulgent throne, sped far and wide through space his beams of glory. The earth saw the regal train, and rejoiced, saying, “I am their sister;” then the shadows passed away from her bosom, and she stood in radiance amid her starry compeers, sending back ray for ray.