...expected, therefore, this transaction widened this breach in their brotherly affection still more. They stood aloof; the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder. Esau, indeed, harboured revenge in his breast, and determined, when his father was dead, to put Jacob...

...linger a gleam of its former loveliness, as if all that had befallen it had been unable — "Wholly to do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been." These, however, are the exception. Silence, sadness, sterility and desolateness are the rule. " As...

...disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining...away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been." The Baron determines to send Geraldine back to the mansion of her father, and salutes her with a warn...

...may recollect, is as follows : — " They stood aloof, the scars remaining Like cliffs which had beeu rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But...away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been." Christabel, Part II. A coincidence worthy of remark is contained in the second ctanza of this canto,...

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...paining— They stood nloof, the ecars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A drrary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost,...away I ween The marks of that which once hath been. It would be injustice to the author to break the powerful spell in which he holds his readers, by any...

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...vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain : ***** But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining—...away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been. Coleridge's Chriitabel. FARE THEE WELL ! FARE thee well ! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee...