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to perceive something strange in my surroundings
When I had left behind me the Macarena gate and its picturesque suburb and had begun to cross by a {261} narrow footpath that labyrinth of orchards, already I seemed to perceive something strange in my surroundings.
— from Romantic legends of Spain by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

the people say she is my slave
And though the people say she is my slave, That I alone, of all who live, have conquered
— from Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters

to pour strange strength into my spirit
It has awakened me; My slumbering spirit starts to life anew; That blinding spray-drift, how it falls upon me, As on the weary flower the freshening dew. {202} That rugged rock-fringe that girds in the ocean, And calls the foam from its translucent blue, It seems to pour strange strength into my spirit,— Strength for endurance, strength for conflict too.
— from Religious Poems, Selected by Various


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