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... thee in my Dream , 213 Sapling's Apology ( The ) , 244 145 St. George's Knight , 245 155 Stanzas : Trust in God , 268 162 220 Lost in the Tule : An Incident in California , Lunatic Asylum of Boresko ( The ) , Lines . The Dear Ones gone ...
... thee in my Dream , 213 Sapling's Apology ( The ) , 244 145 St. George's Knight , 245 155 Stanzas : Trust in God , 268 162 220 Lost in the Tule : An Incident in California , Lunatic Asylum of Boresko ( The ) , Lines . The Dear Ones gone ...
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... thee for mine own , To wear thee in my heart ; That dream is o'er - I leave thee now , And bless thee , as we part . The cherished hopes of other days Time never may restore ; But , dear lost one ! I love thee still As fondly as of yore ...
... thee for mine own , To wear thee in my heart ; That dream is o'er - I leave thee now , And bless thee , as we part . The cherished hopes of other days Time never may restore ; But , dear lost one ! I love thee still As fondly as of yore ...
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... thee glad again . And when I strove to tell thee aught Beyond the reach of words , thy face Became a picture of my thought , And gave the shadow life and grace : Until its beauty seemed to be , That it was listened to by thee . With an ...
... thee glad again . And when I strove to tell thee aught Beyond the reach of words , thy face Became a picture of my thought , And gave the shadow life and grace : Until its beauty seemed to be , That it was listened to by thee . With an ...
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... thee in the grave ! Oh , forgive a mother's sadness ! do not heed a starting tear , Though it falleth on this happiest , merriest day of all the year ! Just behind those alder - bushes , skirting that low , mossy spot , Lies a walk all ...
... thee in the grave ! Oh , forgive a mother's sadness ! do not heed a starting tear , Though it falleth on this happiest , merriest day of all the year ! Just behind those alder - bushes , skirting that low , mossy spot , Lies a walk all ...
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... thee , whose welcome was the first , Whose care my frame in sickness nursed ; To thee , last remnant of my blood Beyond Atlantic's swelling flood , " Twas hard to give the parting hand , As rang the cry , Unmoor from land ! ' Borne out ...
... thee , whose welcome was the first , Whose care my frame in sickness nursed ; To thee , last remnant of my blood Beyond Atlantic's swelling flood , " Twas hard to give the parting hand , As rang the cry , Unmoor from land ! ' Borne out ...
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Page 283 - Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Page 251 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it.
Page 6 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church.
Page 7 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 305 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say "This thing's to do," Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't.
Page 74 - Thus saith the Lord: I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Page 447 - THE MAY SUN SHEDS AN AMBER LIGHT." THE May sun sheds an amber light On new-leaved woods and lawns between ; But she who, with a smile more bright, Welcomed and watched the springing green, Is in her grave, Low in her grave. The fair white blossoms of the wood In groups beside the pathway stand ; But one, the gentle and the good, Who cropped them with a fairer hand, Is in her grave, Low in her grave. Upon the woodland's morning airs The small birds...
Page 251 - DEARLY beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of this company, to join together this Man and this Woman in holy Matrimony...
Page 159 - ... at the look of blank amazement with which Paddy received my announcement of the necessity of taking out all the coals from the grate, before he could hope to kindle a fire, and the stare of the man of affairs for the D House, as he entered upon the field of my efforts to say that tea was ready." " There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous !" I exclaimed, laughing, in spite of my sympathy with my fair friend.
Page 46 - Parent, to the contemplation of the myriads of fellow-beings with which his goodness has peopled the infinite of space; so neither is it false or vain to consider ourselves as interested and connected with our whole race, through all time; allied to our ancestors; allied to our posterity; closely compacted on all sides with others; ourselves being but links in the great chain of being, which begins with the origin of our race, runs onward through its successive generations, binding together the past,...