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Page 15
... thousand leagues , He goes ' mid the surging foam ; — What matter to him is land or shore , For the sea is his truest home ! And away to the north ' mong ice - rocks stern , And among the frozen snow , To a sea that is lone and desolate ...
... thousand leagues , He goes ' mid the surging foam ; — What matter to him is land or shore , For the sea is his truest home ! And away to the north ' mong ice - rocks stern , And among the frozen snow , To a sea that is lone and desolate ...
Page 38
... and that bread cast upon the waters , in the shape of a simple good deed , may return with thousand - fold blessings , " said Melgrove , with a smile . THE MAY QUEEN . If you're waking , call me 38 THE BOY MAKES THE MAN .
... and that bread cast upon the waters , in the shape of a simple good deed , may return with thousand - fold blessings , " said Melgrove , with a smile . THE MAY QUEEN . If you're waking , call me 38 THE BOY MAKES THE MAN .
Page 42
... thousand times I blessed him as he knelt beside my bed . He showed me all the mercy , for he taught me all the sin : Now , though my lamp was lighted late , there's One will let me in : Nor would I now be well , mother , again , if that ...
... thousand times I blessed him as he knelt beside my bed . He showed me all the mercy , for he taught me all the sin : Now , though my lamp was lighted late , there's One will let me in : Nor would I now be well , mother , again , if that ...
Page 69
... thousand feet above the cataract ; and the Christian mother , falling across the aerie , in the midst of bones and blood , clasped her child - not dead , as she had expected , but unmangled and untorn , and * Wee wean , little child ...
... thousand feet above the cataract ; and the Christian mother , falling across the aerie , in the midst of bones and blood , clasped her child - not dead , as she had expected , but unmangled and untorn , and * Wee wean , little child ...
Page 70
... thousand creatures of her own kind , stationary , or running to and fro ! Was that the sound of the water - fall , or the faint roar of voices ? Is that her native strath ? and that tuft of trees , does it contain the hut in which ...
... thousand creatures of her own kind , stationary , or running to and fro ! Was that the sound of the water - fall , or the faint roar of voices ? Is that her native strath ? and that tuft of trees , does it contain the hut in which ...
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