Word: dew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dew-drop sipping...
...drank the dew of Hell...
...loosed upon the cold white dew...
...from prying into the department which treats of the secrets and doings of this great brotherhood, but we were much struck with a bit of poetry entitled "Dead." Zimine, the heroine, is represented on the top of a "mist-shrouded mountain," while her lover "stands still in the gathering dew" at the foot, "listening and waiting" for her. The following verse, on account of the boldness of metaphor in the first two lines, the startling paradox in the second two, and the realistic beauty of the refrain which ends the stanza, we copy in full...
Come out with chalices of crystal dew...