Shoemaker's Best Selections for Readings and Recitations, Issue 5Penn Publishing Company, 1905 |
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... of petulance ; Through the glistening tears I caught a little shy and furtive glance . Growing bolder then , I clasped her dainty hand full 10 BEST SELECTIONS *9 At Last Susan A Bisbee XIII Aunt Betsey and Little Davy (Dialogue)
... of petulance ; Through the glistening tears I caught a little shy and furtive glance . Growing bolder then , I clasped her dainty hand full 10 BEST SELECTIONS *9 At Last Susan A Bisbee XIII Aunt Betsey and Little Davy (Dialogue)
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Growing bolder then , I clasped her dainty hand full tenderly , Though it made a mock exertion , struggling faintly to be free . " ' ttle Marit , " said I , gently , " tell me what has grieved you so , For heard you sighing sorely at ...
Growing bolder then , I clasped her dainty hand full tenderly , Though it made a mock exertion , struggling faintly to be free . " ' ttle Marit , " said I , gently , " tell me what has grieved you so , For heard you sighing sorely at ...
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... window , her darling's sunny locks . I lifted him up to see mother , and he kissed his little hand , Then sat like a mouse in the corner , and thought it was fairyland . But somehow I fell a - thinking of a scene 22 BEST SELECTIONS.
... window , her darling's sunny locks . I lifted him up to see mother , and he kissed his little hand , Then sat like a mouse in the corner , and thought it was fairyland . But somehow I fell a - thinking of a scene 22 BEST SELECTIONS.
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... hand that must wreck or save it , O merciful God ! was mine . ' Twas a hundred lives or Johnny's . ' Twas that ! what could I do ? Up to God's ear that moment a wild , fierce question flew- " What shall I do , O heaven ? " and sudden ...
... hand that must wreck or save it , O merciful God ! was mine . ' Twas a hundred lives or Johnny's . ' Twas that ! what could I do ? Up to God's ear that moment a wild , fierce question flew- " What shall I do , O heaven ? " and sudden ...
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... hand , you take hold of life resolutely , spring to its tasks with strenuous and joyous energy , pour yourself into its opportunities , meet its duties valiantly , match your strength and purpose against its trials , temptations , and ...
... hand , you take hold of life resolutely , spring to its tasks with strenuous and joyous energy , pour yourself into its opportunities , meet its duties valiantly , match your strength and purpose against its trials , temptations , and ...
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Page 54 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die.
Page 73 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 63 - God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 54 - May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent, Till the calm rivers, lakes and seas, Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high, Are each paved with the moon and these.