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... floating si- lently upon the smooth river at sunset , - small pieces of red and white flannel , being the trifles which lure to death many thousands of these beautiful and sweet fish . The white fish are caught with the seine , and 50 ...
... floating si- lently upon the smooth river at sunset , - small pieces of red and white flannel , being the trifles which lure to death many thousands of these beautiful and sweet fish . The white fish are caught with the seine , and 50 ...
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... floating over its lakes and streams , and dancing through its lonely forests . In these did they believe , and to please them was their religion . The historian * of this State thus writes in alluding to " the times of the days of old ...
... floating over its lakes and streams , and dancing through its lonely forests . In these did they believe , and to please them was their religion . The historian * of this State thus writes in alluding to " the times of the days of old ...
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... floating over the bosom of Nature . But there are hours in the life of every man when the music of silence is dearer to him than all . Even such an hour is it my present privilege to enjoy . The iron tongue of Time has told the ...
... floating over the bosom of Nature . But there are hours in the life of every man when the music of silence is dearer to him than all . Even such an hour is it my present privilege to enjoy . The iron tongue of Time has told the ...
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... floating and sinking like burning flakes of snow . The gloomy silence was broken only by the chirp of the cricket , and the song of the katy - did . At intervals , too , the clear , soothing voice of the whip - poor- will would echo far ...
... floating and sinking like burning flakes of snow . The gloomy silence was broken only by the chirp of the cricket , and the song of the katy - did . At intervals , too , the clear , soothing voice of the whip - poor- will would echo far ...
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... floating silently , amid the sweet perfume of the wild lotus and white water - lily , which are growing near . One or two have wandered out into the lake , making no ripple , but moving as if lured away by the glossy loveliness of their ...
... floating silently , amid the sweet perfume of the wild lotus and white water - lily , which are growing near . One or two have wandered out into the lake , making no ripple , but moving as if lured away by the glossy loveliness of their ...
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Page 152 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 121 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt seaweed Clings to the marble of her palaces.
Page 20 - ... bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! \ Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled is laid, Low i
Page 20 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth...
Page 20 - Heav'n, He, ruin'd, sink! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!
Page 200 - E'en while with us thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow house beneath ! Soul to its place on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die.
Page 32 - I would not live alway ; no — welcome the tomb, Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its gloom; There, sweet be my rest, till he bid me arise, To hail him in triumph descending the skies.
Page 204 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell...
Page 166 - Hath ceased ; all, all around is quietness. Less fearful on this day, the limping hare Stops, and looks back, and stops, and looks on man, Her deadliest foe. The toil-worn horse, set free, Unheedful of the pasture, roams at large ; And, as his stiff unwieldy bulk he rolls, His iron-armed hoofs gleam in the morning ray.
Page 170 - And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint -like, Looking downward from the skies.