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... valleys and mountains and forests , smiling under the in- fluence of perpetual summer , where the sing- ing of birds was always heard , and where the buffalo , the horse , the deer , the antelope , the bear , the wolf , the panther ...
... valleys and mountains and forests , smiling under the in- fluence of perpetual summer , where the sing- ing of birds was always heard , and where the buffalo , the horse , the deer , the antelope , the bear , the wolf , the panther ...
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... valley before us , is fast melting into the dusk of twilight . " The The flies of evening are on their feeble wings , the hum of their course is on the fields . " birds have gone to their nests . The flowers , afraid of the breath of ...
... valley before us , is fast melting into the dusk of twilight . " The The flies of evening are on their feeble wings , the hum of their course is on the fields . " birds have gone to their nests . The flowers , afraid of the breath of ...
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... valley of tears " ? Are we so selfish as to mourn , because they are happy in another and better world ? I love the poet and the Christian , who could write these words : " I would not live alway ; I ask not to stay Where storm after ...
... valley of tears " ? Are we so selfish as to mourn , because they are happy in another and better world ? I love the poet and the Christian , who could write these words : " I would not live alway ; I ask not to stay Where storm after ...
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... keep his commandments , and follow the example of the meek and lowly Saviour , who is our Redeemer , and the Son of God , when we are called to pass through the valley which leads to eternity , we shall be 38 SABBATH EVENING REFLECTIONS .
... keep his commandments , and follow the example of the meek and lowly Saviour , who is our Redeemer , and the Son of God , when we are called to pass through the valley which leads to eternity , we shall be 38 SABBATH EVENING REFLECTIONS .
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Charles Lanman. the valley which leads to eternity , we shall be supported by his omnipotent hand , and , at last , shall be welcomed by him and his angels into that glorious kingdom , prepared for the righteous from the foundation of ...
Charles Lanman. the valley which leads to eternity , we shall be supported by his omnipotent hand , and , at last , shall be welcomed by him and his angels into that glorious kingdom , prepared for the righteous from the foundation of ...
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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.