The American School Readers: Primer, [First- reader]Macmillan Company, 1911 - Readers |
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Page 260 - the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, " Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear:
Page 180 - THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat,
Page 244 - swallows; I make the netted sunbeams dance Against my sandy shallows. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses; I linger by my shingly bars; I loiter round my cresses; And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. TENNYSON.
Page 264 - finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made ; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and
Page 182 - begun, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou has taught. Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought.
Page 59 - THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, "When fond recollection presents them to view, The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew; The widespreading pond, and the mill which stood by it;
Page 51 - Now who be ye, would cross Lochgyle, This dark and stormy water? " " Oh, I'm the chief of Ulva's isle, And this, Lord Ullin's daughter. " And fast before her father's men Three days we've fled together, For should he find us in the glen, My blood would stain the heather. 1
Page 60 - vessel I hail as a treasure ; For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell; Then
Page 263 - everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: " and it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Page 318 - he kept his deck And peered through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck! A light! a light! a light! a light! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. He gained a world ; he gave that world Its greatest lesson : " On ! sail on !