Story Hour Readings: Fourth yearAmerican Book Company, 1921 - 367 pages |
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... fire desir- able . The disciple of Buddha entertained his kind hosts with various legends and myths , and last of all with the story of the creation . He told his wondering listeners how in the beginning 25 the solid earth on which they ...
... fire desir- able . The disciple of Buddha entertained his kind hosts with various legends and myths , and last of all with the story of the creation . He told his wondering listeners how in the beginning 25 the solid earth on which they ...
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... fire . Then the Creative Spirit hurled the fiery ball from his hand , and it shot through the universe , burning its way through other banks of fog and condensing them into rain , which fell in great floods , cooling the surface of the ...
... fire . Then the Creative Spirit hurled the fiery ball from his hand , and it shot through the universe , burning its way through other banks of fog and condensing them into rain , which fell in great floods , cooling the surface of the ...
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... Fire , a raging , dangerous fellow when free , but loving and faithful when held in bonds . Older still was Water , terrible in strength but , when not aroused , as gentle as a mother's caress . ΙΟ 15 Years upon years went by , and at ...
... Fire , a raging , dangerous fellow when free , but loving and faithful when held in bonds . Older still was Water , terrible in strength but , when not aroused , as gentle as a mother's caress . ΙΟ 15 Years upon years went by , and at ...
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... fire until the red coals slumbered unseen at the mouth of the forge . Out into the forest the Smith wandered . Closely he 30 scanned the hillsides and the boggy thickets and the paths among the trees . And there , where the bears had ...
... fire until the red coals slumbered unseen at the mouth of the forge . Out into the forest the Smith wandered . Closely he 30 scanned the hillsides and the boggy thickets and the paths among the trees . And there , where the bears had ...
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... Fire , my brother , waits to devour me . He is strong and fierce . He has no pity . " The Smith shook his head and made reply , still singing : ― " No ! your brother does not wish to harm you Willingly he never would alarm you . With ...
... Fire , my brother , waits to devour me . He is strong and fierce . He has no pity . " The Smith shook his head and made reply , still singing : ― " No ! your brother does not wish to harm you Willingly he never would alarm you . With ...
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Page 168 - TO A WATERFOWL Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 278 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow.
Page 105 - For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 319 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?
Page 300 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Page 299 - 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 335 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? BY WILLIAM JONES "1 T 7"HAT constitutes a State ? * * Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; • Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred 'and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men...
Page 321 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
Page 184 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 311 - WARREN'S ADDRESS AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL BY JOHN PIERPONT OTAND! the ground's your own, my braves! ^ Will ye give it up to slaves?