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... Earth's Noblemen , JuliaC . R. Dorr , 51 Mrs. H. N. Ralston , 53 Callanan , 54 55 33 29. Three Days in the Life of Columbus , 3 30. The Gladiator , . Delavigne , J. A. Jones , 57 5. Nobody's Child , . 6. The Legend of the 7. Press On ...
... Earth's Noblemen , JuliaC . R. Dorr , 51 Mrs. H. N. Ralston , 53 Callanan , 54 55 33 29. Three Days in the Life of Columbus , 3 30. The Gladiator , . Delavigne , J. A. Jones , 57 5. Nobody's Child , . 6. The Legend of the 7. Press On ...
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... earth , mother , - I was glad it faded soon , - For the tall pines stood out black and still , The moon was a ghostly moon . The light was so weird and dim , mother , That it made me feel afraid ; And a cold wind blew from a darksome ...
... earth , mother , - I was glad it faded soon , - For the tall pines stood out black and still , The moon was a ghostly moon . The light was so weird and dim , mother , That it made me feel afraid ; And a cold wind blew from a darksome ...
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... earth to sky , And over that beautiful way we went , This loving angel and I. Ere long , for we seemed to fly , mother , We entered a land so fair That it filled my heart with the sweetest joy To look on the beauty there . I saw many ...
... earth to sky , And over that beautiful way we went , This loving angel and I. Ere long , for we seemed to fly , mother , We entered a land so fair That it filled my heart with the sweetest joy To look on the beauty there . I saw many ...
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... Of future liquidation . And now his sands were running fast , And he had died , no doubt- But that just when the earth caved in He happened to be out ! " Ah , ha ! I have a happy thought Junior Pupils . II The Well Digger, John G Saxe.
... Of future liquidation . And now his sands were running fast , And he had died , no doubt- But that just when the earth caved in He happened to be out ! " Ah , ha ! I have a happy thought Junior Pupils . II The Well Digger, John G Saxe.
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... earth above , The man is surely dead ! ” And the wife , with pious care , All needles cost to save , Said , " Since the Lord has willed it , E'en let it be his grave ! " XII . THE BOY'S COMPLAINT . 46 H ! never mind , they're only boys ...
... earth above , The man is surely dead ! ” And the wife , with pious care , All needles cost to save , Said , " Since the Lord has willed it , E'en let it be his grave ! " XII . THE BOY'S COMPLAINT . 46 H ! never mind , they're only boys ...
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Page 129 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 41 - We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.
Page 179 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance; let joy be unconfined ! No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet...
Page 46 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free...
Page 179 - 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...
Page 157 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Page 127 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : " Strike till the last armed foe expires ; Strike for your altars and your fires ; Strike for the green graves of your sires — God, and your native land...
Page 129 - Hear the loud alarum bells, Brazen bells! What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 77 - It was my guide, my light, my all, It bade my dark forebodings cease; And through the storm and danger's thrall, It led me to the port of peace.
Page 241 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.