The Wandering Jew: A Christmas CarolChatto & Windus, 1893 - 151 páginas |
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The Wandering Jew: A Christmas Carol Robert Buchanan,Piccadilly Chatto and Windus Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
Términos y frases comunes
AHASUERUS Allah answer'd Antichrist beneath beneath the sky bless blood breast breath bright cast Christ Christianity City cloud cold crept cried Cross crucified cruel dark dark Judge dead Death deep despair Divine doth dreams dust Earth Eternity Ev'n eyes face fair Father feeble feet fell flesh forlorn gaze God's godhead Golgotha grew grey hair hath heart Heaven heavenly holy HUGH PRICE HUGHES human Jesus Jesus of Nazareth Judge Judgment Judgment Day King light lonely Lord methought moan naked neath Night o'er Outcast pale pass'd Phantom piteous pity poem poison'd Priests raiment reign ROBERT BUCHANAN rose round seem'd shame shining shriek shroud sight silent slain sleep sleeping City smiled smote snow sorrow Soul spake Spirit starry stars stept stood testified thee things thither thou art thro Throne tomb turn'd Twas voice Wandering Jew waves weary wild
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Página 149 - ... didst seek to slay ! Death that was merciful and very fair, Sweet dove-eyed Death that hush'd the Earth's despair, Death that shed balm on tired eyes like thine, Death that was Lord of Life and all Divine, Thou didst deny us, offering instead The Soul's fierce famine that can ne'er be fedDeath shall abide to bless all things that be, But evermore shall turn aside from thee...
Página 150 - Thou shalt abide while all things ehb and flow, Wake while the weary sleep, wait while they go, And treading paths no human feet have trod Search on still vainly for thy Father, God ; Thy blessing shall pursue thee as a curse To hunt thee, homeless, thro' the Universe ; No hand shall slay thee, for no hand shall dare To strike the godhead Death itself must spare ! With all the woes of Earth upon thy head, Uplift thy Cross, and go. Thy Doom is said.
Página 27 - Father which art in Heaven,' the old Man said, ' Thou from the holy shelter of whose wing I came, an innocent and shining thing, A lily in my hand and in mine eyes The passion and the peace of Paradise, Thou who didst drop me gently down to rest A little while upon my Mother's breast, Wrapt in the raiment of a mortal birth, How long, how long, across thy stricken Earth Must I fare onward, deathless...
Página 141 - Ye sinned in my Name, — Ye turned the heart of the Eternal One 'Gainst you, his children, and 'gainst me, his Son, So that my promise grew a dream forlorn. — Woe to ye all ! and endless Woe to Me Who deem'd that I could save Humanity ! The father knew men better when he sent His angel Death to be his instrument.
Página 33 - And moveless in the frosty light he stood, Ev'n as one hanging on the Cross of wood ! Then, like a lone man in the north, to whom The auroral lights on the world's edge assume The likeness of his gods, I seem'd to swoon To a sick horror ; and the stars and moon Reel'd wildly o'er me, swift as sparks that blow Out of a forge ; and the cold stones below Chattered like teeth ! For lo, at last I knew The lineaments of that diviner Jew Who like a Phantom passeth everywhere, The World's last hope and bitterest...
Página 48 - And said : 1 0 Judge, Death reigned since Time began, Sov'ran of Life and Change ! and ere this Man Came with his lying dreams .to break our rest The reign of Death was beautiful and blest ; But now within the flesh of men there grows The poison of a Dream that slays repose, The trouble of a mirage in the air That turneth into terror and despair ; So that the Master of the World, ev'n Death, Hated in his own kingdom, travaileth In darkness, creeping haunted and afraid, Like any mortal thing, from...
Página 37 - At the word The silent cisterns of the Night were stirred And plashed with troublous waters, and in the sky, The pale stars clung together, while the cry Was wafted on the wind from street to street ! Like to a dreaming man whose heart doth beat With thick pulsations, while he fights to break The load of terror with a shriek and wake, The sleeping City trembled thro...
Página 59 - ... with your Master's Flame and Sword.' Look, where the culprit croucheth in his place, Blood on his hands, and terror in his face ! Aye, glue your gaze upon him, while I tell Of damned deeds and thoughts befitting Hell ! . . . . They went abroad, his Priests, like wolves that scent Lambs in the fields, and slew the innocent ; The holy Shepherds who in places green To Isis sang and Thammuz songs serene They found and slaughter'd, till their red blood ran In torrents down the streams Egyptian ; The...
Página 131 - ... Where'er the Soul was darken'd and appall'd, Where mothers wept above their dead first-born, Where children to green graves brought gifts forlorn Of flowers and tears, where, struck 'spite helm and shield, Pale warriors moan'd upon the battlefield, Where Horror thicken'd as a spider's mesh Round plague-smit men and lepers foul of flesh, Where Love and Innocence were brought to shame, And Life forgot its conscience and its aim, Thy blessing, even as Light from far away, Came bright and radiant...
Página 9 - O then, meseem'd, the womb of Heaven afar Quickened to sudden life, and moon and star Flash'd like the opening of a million eyes, Dimming from every labyrinth of the skies Their lustre on that Lonely Man ; and he Loom'd like a comer from a far Countrie In ragged antique raiment, and around His waist a rotting rope was loosely bound, And in one feeble hand a lanthorn quaint Hung lax and trembling, and the light was faint Within it unto dying, tho...