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| Bursts like the lightning’s flash. | 1 |
| Calm, as in the days when all was right. | 2 |
| Clear as a mirror. | 3 |
| Dark as care. | 4 |
| Detested as the gates of hell. | 5 |
| Distant as the dead. | 6 |
| Easily as the eagles soar. | 7 |
| Fast as an eagle through the air. | 8 |
| Flashing like a fiery stream. | 9 |
| Flickering like dying lamps in sepulchres. | 10 |
| Fluttered, like a vision. | 11 |
| Freely, as the firmament embraces the world. | 12 |
| Glint, like thousands of suns from the dew-drops. | 13 |
| Haggard as spectres. | 14 |
| Vex and haunt me like a tale of my own future destiny. | 15 |
| Lies heavy … like murder on a guilty soul. | 16 |
| Hisses and roars, as when fire is with water commixed and contending. | 17 |
| Inaccessible, like some tall cliff. | 18 |
| Indestructible as are the stars. | 19 |
| Light as a happy wave. | 20 |
| Light as the dancing skiff borne on the silvery tide. | 21 |
| Light as the rainbow’s leap into space. | 22 |
| As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. | 23 |
| Go out, like an untended lamp. | 24 |
| Pale as a whitewashed wall. | 25 |
| Perished like some gift of earth. | 26 |
| Silent as the grave. | 27 |
| Sparkling like a son of morning. | 28 |
| Place swarmed like a fair. | 29 |
| Sweep as the tempest o’er the deep. | 30 |
| Twinkle like lanterns in a sepulchre. | 31 |
| Vainly as the hydra bleeds. | 32 |
| Whistles like the jackal’s scream. | 33 |
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