“Holy angel, in Heaven blessed,
My spirit longs with thee to rest”
Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera
Source: The Phantom of the Opera
“Lest, once more wandering from that heaven,
I fall on some base heart unblest,
Faithless to thee, false, unforgiven,
And lose my everlasting rest.”
Absent from thee, I languish still, ll. 13-16.
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Faithless to thee, false, unforgiven,
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For that I love
Thy heart of stone!”
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Ye shall grow a part
Of the laughing Sea;
Of the moaning heart
Of the glittered wave
Of the sun-gleam's dart
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For that I love
Thy heart of stone!
From the heights above
To the depths below,
Where dread things move, There is naught can show
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Ruthless, like none, save the Sea, alone!
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Poemː God
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