'I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak ...and so soon as the dazzling light vanished the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump'
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Card 7
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'Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through'
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Card 8
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'[T]he moon gazed on my midnight labours'
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Card 9
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'filthy creation'
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Card 10
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'I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health...I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, …I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms'
