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Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever read more
Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever lasting night. Give me a thousand kisses.
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with
you. Walk while ye have the read more
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with
you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you:
for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn!
Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,
May I express thee read more
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn!
Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,
May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light
And never but in unapproached light
Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,
Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]
Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]
In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot
to find the polar star and to read more
In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot
to find the polar star and to fix his course.
[It., Fra l' ombre un lampo solo
Basta al nocchier fugace
Che gia ritrova il polo,
Gia riconosce il mar.]
He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a
season to rejoice in his light.
He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a
season to rejoice in his light.
There swift return
Diurnal, merely to officiate light
Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
There swift return
Diurnal, merely to officiate light
Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
