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... fear of kings . But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings ; It is an attribute to God himself ; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy VOICES FOR THE SPEECHLESS . 15 Sympathy Acts ...
... fear of kings . But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings ; It is an attribute to God himself ; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy VOICES FOR THE SPEECHLESS . 15 Sympathy Acts ...
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... The labor and the wounds are vain , The enemy faints not , nor faileth , And as things have been they remain . If hopes were dupes , fears may be liars ; 24 VOICES FOR THE SPEECHLESS . Trust Questions 49 Say Heroes 50.
... The labor and the wounds are vain , The enemy faints not , nor faileth , And as things have been they remain . If hopes were dupes , fears may be liars ; 24 VOICES FOR THE SPEECHLESS . Trust Questions 49 Say Heroes 50.
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Selections for Schools and Private Reading. If hopes were dupes , fears may be liars ; It may be , in yon smoke concealed , Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers , And , but for you , possess the field . For while the tired waves ...
Selections for Schools and Private Reading. If hopes were dupes , fears may be liars ; It may be , in yon smoke concealed , Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers , And , but for you , possess the field . For while the tired waves ...
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... fear ; In brutes ' t is purely piteous . HENRY TAYLOR . TO LYDIA MARIA CHILD . Who knows thy love most royal power , With largess free and brave , Which crowns the helper of the poor , The suffering and the slave . Yet springs as freely ...
... fear ; In brutes ' t is purely piteous . HENRY TAYLOR . TO LYDIA MARIA CHILD . Who knows thy love most royal power , With largess free and brave , Which crowns the helper of the poor , The suffering and the slave . Yet springs as freely ...
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... fear by love , and , at the risk of instant death , sprung in turn upon his dreaded enemy , and bit and shrieked until help arrived . CHARLES KINGSLEY . EFFECT OF CRUELTY . The effect of the barbarous treatment of inferior crea- tures ...
... fear by love , and , at the risk of instant death , sprung in turn upon his dreaded enemy , and bit and shrieked until help arrived . CHARLES KINGSLEY . EFFECT OF CRUELTY . The effect of the barbarous treatment of inferior crea- tures ...
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Ahura Mazda animals BARRY CORNWALL beast beautiful BELL OF ATRI beneath bless Bobolink brown thrush brutes CELIA THAXTER cheer Cheerily chip Chipperee creatures cried dear DENIS FLORENCE MACCARTHY Division Division II dost doth Draupadi dumb earth eyes faithful fear feet Gelert green H. W. LONGFELLOW happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven Hiawatha horse hound human INDRA kind king knew light little bird Little by little Little lamb living look Lord LUCY LARCOM mercy morning nest never night o'er Ormazd pain pity poor dog Tray Robin round shadow shalt shine sing song sorrow soul sound sparrow spider is spinning spinning his thread steed Stork summer swallow sweet thee thine thing thou thrush toil tree voice wandering weary WILLIAM BLAKE wind wings wood word worm wren's nest ZEND AVESTA
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Page 23 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense. Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 218 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
Page 236 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 102 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 105 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus Hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched- with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want.
Page 83 - — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 36 - The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 235 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell...
Page 52 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 14 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.