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RI MS HD/13/c, p. 001
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An unshaped mass of living sentiment
My feelings were the feelings that
the voice
of nature gives to man. –
And in my peaceful bosom was
the love of nature mingled
with the love of man. –
And with no sophistry no damned
lies
convert unto the purpose of his
soul – The eternal thoughts of
nature.
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To me no shaping intellect had given
The everlasting laws which her sons
The many days …
RI MS HD/13/C
RI MS HD/13/c, p. 003
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Romance on the establisment
– of Religion –
– Scene – China –
Time before the deluge. –
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Achmet the son of Abdalla
is born in the beautiful
vally of Ur is taught philosophy
by his Uncle Agnactae –
He falls in love with
Ugbec the daughter of
one of the a anticreationists
Illa who is attempting actuated
by ambition to impose a
new religion upon – the Urrites, –
their …
RI MS HD/13/C
RI MS HD/13/c, p. 005
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Shall I renounce the countenance
living in <the> beauty of expression
shall I give up the articulately
sounding voice whose gentle sound
has so often lull’d me to
repose to worship the dry
& unmeaning word benevolence
no let me live a son a
[?xx] brother & a lover, let
me die a father a
husband a friend &
a father.
On breathing the Nitrous Oxide
Not in the …
RI MS HD/13/C
RI MS HD/13/c, p. 006
Yet are my limbs with inward
transports thrilld
And clad with new born
mightiness around –
RI MS HD/13/C
RI MS HD/13/c, p. 007
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The life of the Spinosist
The insensate dust is seen to t
The dust insensate rises into life. –
The liquid dew is lovely in the
flower
The liquid dew becomes the rosy
flower
The o The Spinosist
Lo oër the earth the kindling
spirits pour
The spark <seeds> of life that <span style="text-decoration: ...
RI MS HD/13/C
RI MS HD/13/c, p. 008
2 Linked to the whole the human mind
displays
1 No sameness & no <deep> identity divine
4 & Changful as is the surface of the
seas
3 Impressible as is the blue [ms obscured] moving sky
To scattered thoughts some unknown laws
are given
By which they join & move in
circling …
RI MS HD/13/C
RI MS HD/13/c, p. 009
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To view the heavens with solar <morning>
radiance white bright
Majestic mingling with <the> still
blue sea ocean blue. –
filled by the a thousand silver
streams
& played upon by ten thousand
cloudless breezes
To view the meadows <forests> green
the mountains white
The peopled plains of rich
& varyied hue. –
To feel the …
RI MS HD/13/C
RI MS HD/13/c, p. 010
oer their grey head their life
diffusing ray
To die in agony & In many days
To give to Nature all her
stolen powers
Etherial fire to feed the solar
rays
Etherial dew to feed the
earth in showers.
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RI MS HD/13/C
RI MS HD/13/c, p. 011
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As the blue flower [?xxxxx] neglected
in the mountain beat by every
breeze. yet it feels the sunshine.
the mountain torrent. –
When the wild tempest roars &
Though no delight beams in the eye
Or vibrates in the ear
When the wind roars & the agitated heaven
Dark with <in> the thunder cloud mingles with earth
Her children dews
In big …
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RI MS HD/13/c, p. 012
pregnant with life
And turns its roots
To the vivifying dews
striken
pregnant with [?xxxxxx] life
And vivifying power –
3
Though on the blue & lowly flower.
Nursed by the dews of spring
Upon the wild & life deserted heath
The blasts of ocean blow, the electric fires
lights terrible
Yet does it <[?x]> <sometimes> feel the …
RI MS HD/13/C
RI MS HD/13/c, p. 013
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The seed of future life
[Heavy deletion with an insertion, also deleted]
Of wondrous generations yet unborn
Drops in the nurturing bosom of the
earth
Teaming with love.
2
Though the wide first chilling wintry
blast
Tears from their stately seat
The beauteous blossoms of the lofty flower
Last of its lovely race & nips its leaves
And wounds it bark.
so beautiful
3
Yet does it leave a …