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... thine eye fixed on the goal . Thy mother ! - never may her eye Be damp with tears for thee , Save for those little ills that try Thy tender infancy ; And mayst thou to man's sterner worth Join her warm heart - her guileless mirth , Her ...
... thine eye fixed on the goal . Thy mother ! - never may her eye Be damp with tears for thee , Save for those little ills that try Thy tender infancy ; And mayst thou to man's sterner worth Join her warm heart - her guileless mirth , Her ...
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... thine ; No sigh that rends thy father's heart and mine ; Bright as his manly sire , the son shall be In form and soul ; but , ah ! more blest than he ! Thy fame , thy worth , thy filial love , at last , Shall soothe this aching heart ...
... thine ; No sigh that rends thy father's heart and mine ; Bright as his manly sire , the son shall be In form and soul ; but , ah ! more blest than he ! Thy fame , thy worth , thy filial love , at last , Shall soothe this aching heart ...
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... thine eye , the blood flows pure in thy veins , and thy spirits are gay as the morning ; But , alas ! the time will come when diseases , a numerous and a direful train , will assail thy life : the time will come , when pale and ghastly ...
... thine eye , the blood flows pure in thy veins , and thy spirits are gay as the morning ; But , alas ! the time will come when diseases , a numerous and a direful train , will assail thy life : the time will come , when pale and ghastly ...
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... thine own soul , striving to supplant thee , and laying snares for thy ruin ! I mention not these things , my young friend to make you miserable before the time . God forbid that I should anticipate the evil day , unless I could arm you ...
... thine own soul , striving to supplant thee , and laying snares for thy ruin ! I mention not these things , my young friend to make you miserable before the time . God forbid that I should anticipate the evil day , unless I could arm you ...
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... thine eyes ! Life is but thought ! so think I will , That Youth and I are house - mates still ! INFANTINE INQUIRIES . ' TELL me , O mother ! when I grow old , Will my hair , which my sisters say is like gold , Grow gray as the old man's ...
... thine eyes ! Life is but thought ! so think I will , That Youth and I are house - mates still ! INFANTINE INQUIRIES . ' TELL me , O mother ! when I grow old , Will my hair , which my sisters say is like gold , Grow gray as the old man's ...
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Page 81 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 223 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 176 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Page 123 - TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end.
Page 220 - Well done, good and faithful servants, enter ye into the joy of your Lord.
Page 175 - And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain; But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every -seed his own body.
Page 21 - twixt Now and Then ! This breathing House not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er aery Cliffs and glittering Sands, How lightly then it flashed along...
Page 224 - I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 219 - Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Page 55 - ... him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat, by redoubling his exertions.