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... light seemed the smithy , through every cranny and crevice , Warm by the forge within they watched the labouring bellows , And as its panting ceased , and the sparks expired in the ashes , Merrily laughed , and said they were nuns going ...
... light seemed the smithy , through every cranny and crevice , Warm by the forge within they watched the labouring bellows , And as its panting ceased , and the sparks expired in the ashes , Merrily laughed , and said they were nuns going ...
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... light , and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame , as shields of armies the sunshine . Fragments of song the old man sang , and carols of Christmas , Such as at home , in the olden time , his fathers before ...
... light , and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame , as shields of armies the sunshine . Fragments of song the old man sang , and carols of Christmas , Such as at home , in the olden time , his fathers before ...
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... of her lamp and her shadow . Yet were her thoughts of him , and at times a feeling of sadness Pass'd o'er her soul , as the sailing shade of clouds in the moon- light Flitted across the floor and darkened the room for a EVANGELINE . 11.
... of her lamp and her shadow . Yet were her thoughts of him , and at times a feeling of sadness Pass'd o'er her soul , as the sailing shade of clouds in the moon- light Flitted across the floor and darkened the room for a EVANGELINE . 11.
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... Not far withdrawn from these , by the cider - press and the bee- hives , Michael the fiddler was placed , with the gayest of hearts and of waistcoats . Shadow and light from the leaves alternately played on his 12 EVANGELINE . iv.
... Not far withdrawn from these , by the cider - press and the bee- hives , Michael the fiddler was placed , with the gayest of hearts and of waistcoats . Shadow and light from the leaves alternately played on his 12 EVANGELINE . iv.
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... lights from the windows . But on the shores meanwhile the evening fires had been kindled , Built of the drift - wood ... light beheld the face of the old man , Haggard and hollow and wan , and without either thought or emotion , E'en as ...
... lights from the windows . But on the shores meanwhile the evening fires had been kindled , Built of the drift - wood ... light beheld the face of the old man , Haggard and hollow and wan , and without either thought or emotion , E'en as ...
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Page 144 - The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 113 - Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each, burning deed and thought.
Page 62 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great : Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 45 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 484 - If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,— One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.
Page 286 - A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free ; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips. And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 93 - He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat, Against the stinging blast ; He cut a rope from a broken spar, And bound her to the mast. " O father ! I hear the church-bells ring, O, say, what may it be?
Page 92 - IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South.
Page 49 - Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.
Page 45 - There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. 'Shall I have nought that is fair?' saith he, 'Have nought but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again.