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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II The balance turns; the fateful beam Poised to a thought's weight, or a dream, Quivers?inclines?for Good or 1ll ? Breathe not, and still, my heart?be still; Lo, how with Shapes the shadows teem Bat-winged and feathered, throng and stream Thine Hours; innumerable seem Their hands to clutch and strive, until The balance turns. Dark Things ye long-forgotten deem, Fair Deeds, and Words of light esteem. They swarm and whisper, peep and thrill? Now may this prayer the Power fulfil. That drawn by Moments of the Gleam The balance turns 1 M. M. Serge Urlansky was a young man of taste in more respects than one, and his apartment, with its row of immense windows overlooking the Neva, testified as much. There everything was sober and luxurious after the fashion that is inherited and not acquired, every single object of notable beauty and worth, but in a quiet unobtrusive way, and the profusion of blossoming plants filling every available space betrayed not effeminacy but the extravagant passion for flowers which has its home in every Russian heart, though only a privileged few can satisfy it. His favorite room, which he facetiously called thestudy, perhaps because he read seldom, and excepting when obliged to reply to an invitation never rendered himself guilty of writing a line, was rather typical, with its wonderful arras-covered walls, upon which groups of arms were intermingled with trophies of the chase, whip-racks, and a selection of exquisite but rather racy aquarelles. For a wonder, on the afternoon following the ball at the Winter Palace, Serge was sitting before the big square desk ordinarily so neglected, both elbows on the blotter, his head leaning on his fists and his blue eyes scowling at a sheet of paper covered with instructions writ small ...
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