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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838. Excerpt: ... LUTHER It was in sooth a wondrous scene; each aisle Through the dim vista of that antique pile Was thronged with listening myriads yet no sound Broke the hushed silence that prevailed around; Save when at intervals in lengthened swell The organ's distant echoes rose and fell: Or when in rich deep tones the chanted prayer Was wafted stilly through the cloistral air. All faces were upturned, and in each eye The tear-drop glistened, trickling silently. Oh! can ye doubt that in that awful dome Religion's self has fixed her changeless home: That highest faith and holiness and bliss Are all concentred in a scene like this? But look again; and if yon guarded room Be not too shrouded by its sickly gloom, Observe its lonely tenant: on his cheek The fever-spot broods heavily: and weak And languid are his limbs; the summer-air Floats round his cell, but cannot enter there. The trace of youth yet lingers, but his brow Is deeply furrowed with the scars of woe. His very dreams are joyless: he hath past All scenes of writhing anguish, but the last. And ever as he thinks on that, the sigh Tells that no hope is left save one--to die. And do ye ask his crime? 'twas that he dared To feel such feelings as the world not shared;--To cherish high imaginings;--to love With inmost soul the Deity above. For this the dungeon and the rack were borne, The brand of infamy, the sneer of scorn, And all that human cruelty could find To tame the throbbing ardour of his mind. Is this religion too? to mortals given To guide their spirits to the realms of heaven? Were such the precepts that the Saviour taught? Went forth the Apostles with such mission fraught? O deem not that Religion's hallowed name Is justly given to deeds of guilt and shame. Deem not she loves the faggot and the steel, T...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781459028142
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459028147
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 73 gr


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