Obedient to the light
That shone within his soul, he went, pursuing
The windings of the dell.
(Alastor: Or, The Spirit Of Solitude)
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There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold They weighed it in small scales -- and many a face was fixed in eager horror then his gold the miser brought the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
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Wherefore hast thou left me now
Many a day and night?
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