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... soul of knowledge and thou source of truth , Inspire my muse , and animate her lays , That she harmonious may chant thy praise . O could a spark of that celestial fire , Which did thy favored Fénelon inspire , Light on the periods of my ...
... soul of knowledge and thou source of truth , Inspire my muse , and animate her lays , That she harmonious may chant thy praise . O could a spark of that celestial fire , Which did thy favored Fénelon inspire , Light on the periods of my ...
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... soul rejected all relief , Comfort I wished not , for I loved my grief : Hear , my Abella , " cried I , " hear me ... souls serene , and Christian fortitude- Bade me be calm , nor murmur at my loss , But unrepining bear each heavy cross ...
... soul rejected all relief , Comfort I wished not , for I loved my grief : Hear , my Abella , " cried I , " hear me ... souls serene , and Christian fortitude- Bade me be calm , nor murmur at my loss , But unrepining bear each heavy cross ...
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... soul did first receive , The greatest gift that even a God can give , He freely offered to the numerous throng That on his lips with list'ning pleasure hung . " Take him , ye wretched , for your only good , Take him , ye starving ...
... soul did first receive , The greatest gift that even a God can give , He freely offered to the numerous throng That on his lips with list'ning pleasure hung . " Take him , ye wretched , for your only good , Take him , ye starving ...
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... SOUL'S DEFIANCE . I SAID to Sorrow's awful storm , That beat against my breast , Rage on - thou mayst destroy this form , And lay it low at rest ; But still the spirit that now brooks Thy tempest , raging high , Uudaunted on its fury ...
... SOUL'S DEFIANCE . I SAID to Sorrow's awful storm , That beat against my breast , Rage on - thou mayst destroy this form , And lay it low at rest ; But still the spirit that now brooks Thy tempest , raging high , Uudaunted on its fury ...
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... soul seemed spreading the scene to span That opened before her view , And longing for power to look the plan Of the universe fairly through . She climbed and stood on the rocky steep , Like a bird that would mount and fly Far over the ...
... soul seemed spreading the scene to span That opened before her view , And longing for power to look the plan Of the universe fairly through . She climbed and stood on the rocky steep , Like a bird that would mount and fly Far over the ...
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Page 394 - Encyclopaedia of Chemistry, Practical and Theoretical : Embracing its application to the Arts, Metallurgy, Mineralogy, Geology, Medicine and Pharmacy. By JAMES C. BOOTH, Melter and Refiner in the United States Mint, Professor of Applied Chemistry in the Franklin Institute, etc., assisted by CAMPBELL MORFIT, author of " Chemical Manipulations,
Page 62 - MY boy, thou wilt dream the world is fair, And thy spirit will sigh to roam ; And thou must go ; but never, when there, Forget the light of home. Though pleasure may smile with a ray more bright, It dazzles to lead astray : Like the meteor's flash, 'twill deepen the night, When thou treadest the lonely way. But the hearth of home has a constant flame, And pure as vestal fire : 'Twill burn, 'twill burn, for ever the same, For nature feeds the pyre.
Page 48 - But he did one thing that was hardly fair — He peeped in the cupboard, and finding there That all had forgotten for him to prepare. "Now, just to set them a-thinking, I'll bite this basket of fruit...
Page 362 - I once had a little brother With eyes that were dark and deep : In the lap of that old dim forest He lieth in peace asleep ; Light as the down of the thistle, Free as the winds that blow, We roved there the beautiful summers, The summers of long ago ; But his feet on the hills grew weary, And one of the autumn eves I made for my little brother A bed of the yellow leaves.
Page 50 - And soon in the earth she sunk away From the comfortless spot where the Pebble lay. But it was not long ere the soil was broke By the peering head of an infant oak ! And as it arose and its branches spread, The Pebble looked up, and wondering said : — " A modest Acorn ! never to tell What was enclosed in its simple shell...
Page 321 - The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly and as free ; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea ; For every wave with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there.
Page 20 - I once that loved the shady woods so well, Now thought the rivers did the trees excel, And if the sun would ever shine, there would I dwell.
Page 267 - Labor is rest — from the sorrows that greet us, Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill.
Page 204 - COULD have stemmed misfortune's tide, And borne the rich one's sneer, Have braved the haughty glance of pride, Nor shed a single tear. I could have smiled on every blow From life's full quiver thrown, While I might gaze on thee, and know I should not be
Page 50 - Whose head is towering toward the sky, Above such a worthless thing as I ! Useless and vain, a cumberer here, I have been idling from year to year. But never from this shall a vaunting word From the humbled Pebble again be heard, Till something without me or within Shall show the purpose for which I've been ?" The Pebble its vow could not forget, And it lies there wrapt in silence yet.