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...Whose heart is with an iron nerve put down, Crying, ' Unclean ! unclean ! ' 'Twas daybreak now,— When at the altar of the temple stood The holy priest...the roof Like an articulate wail; and there alone, To ghastly thinness shrunk, the leper knelt— The echoes of the melancholy strain Died in the distant...

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...the melancholy strain Died in the distant aisle, and he rose up. Struggling with weakness, and l>ow'd on rocks, ; [lip And with the sackcloth round him, and his Hid in a loathsome covering, stood still, Waiting...

...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof Like...melancholy strain Died in the distant aisles, and he rose np, Struggling with weakness, and bowed down his head Unto the sprinkled ashes, and put off His costly...

...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense-lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant c from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed,...place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, J «chocs of the melancholy strain Died in the distant aisles, and he rose up, Straggling with weakness,...

...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof Like...costly raiment for the leper's garb : And with the sackeloth round him, and his lip Hid in a loathsome covering, stood still, Waiting to hear his doom...

...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof, Like...for the leper's garb, And with the sackcloth round bim, and his lip Hid in a loathsome covering, stood still, Waiting to hear his doom : "Depart! depart,...

...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense-lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof, Like...thinness, Helon knelt. The echoes of the melancholy strain 3ied in the distant aisles, and he rose up, Struggling with weakness, and bowed down his head Into...