“Smiling from those bright rays kiss” [“Heidelberg”] [poem, part 1]
Smiling withfrom
those bright rays kiss
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Shootg
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ng round effulgence moony
Like a lovely Oasis
Mid a desert dark and gloomy
But a moment— darkly down
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Came the cloudy heavens frown
Mong the leaves a fitful shaking.
Told the hoarse nightwind was waking
Grey upon his mountain throne
Heidelberg his ruins lone
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Reared colossally,
All begirt with mighty trees
Bending toWhistling
with the evens breeze
Flappg
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ng faintly by.
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It was morning. from the height,
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Cumbered with its ruins o hoar
All the lovely valley bright
We were looking oer,
With its silver river bending
Vineyards to its banks descending
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Many a distant mountain chain
Girded round the mighty plain.
Here the sky was clear and bright
But upon their distant height
Like a monster oer his prey
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Rain and tempest scowling lay
Like a mighty ocean wave
All along the horizon sweeping
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Flinging far its cloudy spray
Oer the peaceful heaven beating
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