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Page 48
... fire glared on the wise and daring . they dipped their noble limbs in your sedgy lakes , and now they paddled the light canoe * along your rocky shores . Here they warred ; the echoing whoop , the bloody grapple , the defying death ...
... fire glared on the wise and daring . they dipped their noble limbs in your sedgy lakes , and now they paddled the light canoe * along your rocky shores . Here they warred ; the echoing whoop , the bloody grapple , the defying death ...
Page 49
... fire has long since gone out on the shore , and their war - cry is fast dying to the untrod- den west . Slowly and sadly they climb the distant moun- tains , and read their doom in the setting sun . They are shrinking before the mighty ...
... fire has long since gone out on the shore , and their war - cry is fast dying to the untrod- den west . Slowly and sadly they climb the distant moun- tains , and read their doom in the setting sun . They are shrinking before the mighty ...
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... fire I saw a group of youthful forms surrounding , The room with harmless pleasantry resounding ; And , in the midst , I marked the smiling sire . The heavens were clouded - and I heard the tone Of a slow - moving bell : the white ...
... fire I saw a group of youthful forms surrounding , The room with harmless pleasantry resounding ; And , in the midst , I marked the smiling sire . The heavens were clouded - and I heard the tone Of a slow - moving bell : the white ...
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... fire - flies dance through the myrtle boughs ? " " Not there , not there , my child ! ” " Is it where the feathery palm - trees rise , And the date grows ripe under sunny skies ? Or midst the green islands of glittering seas , Where ...
... fire - flies dance through the myrtle boughs ? " " Not there , not there , my child ! ” " Is it where the feathery palm - trees rise , And the date grows ripe under sunny skies ? Or midst the green islands of glittering seas , Where ...
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... fire to warm , or friend to console him , -lay this helpless mortal , who had been so long the terror and won- der of the village . His dog was crouching on the scanty coverlet , and shivering with cold . My grandfather stepped softly ...
... fire to warm , or friend to console him , -lay this helpless mortal , who had been so long the terror and won- der of the village . His dog was crouching on the scanty coverlet , and shivering with cold . My grandfather stepped softly ...
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Page 142 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Page 24 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 21 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 142 - So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean?
Page 143 - And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
Page 67 - He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock, and placing me on the top of it, Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it.
Page 142 - And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy ? Wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
Page 67 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life, consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.
Page 232 - There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 193 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little hell reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him...