The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier: Complete in Two Volumes, Volume 2Ticknor and Fields, 1862 |
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Page 35
... never yet Share of Truth was vainly set In the world's wide fallow ; After hands shall sow the seed , After hands from hill and mead Reap the harvests yellow . Thus , with somewhat of the Seer , Must the moral pioneer From the Future ...
... never yet Share of Truth was vainly set In the world's wide fallow ; After hands shall sow the seed , After hands from hill and mead Reap the harvests yellow . Thus , with somewhat of the Seer , Must the moral pioneer From the Future ...
Page 38
... never shoreward with the clank of chains , Shall weave new sun - bows in their tossing spray , And all their waves keep grateful holiday . And , smiling on thee through her mountain rains , Vermont shall bless thee ; and the Granite ...
... never shoreward with the clank of chains , Shall weave new sun - bows in their tossing spray , And all their waves keep grateful holiday . And , smiling on thee through her mountain rains , Vermont shall bless thee ; and the Granite ...
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... never a hint and never a line Can I find of a reading fiend like mine . I've crossed the Psalter with Brady and Tate , And laid the Primer above them all , I've nailed a horseshoe over the grate , And hung a wig to my parlour wall Once ...
... never a hint and never a line Can I find of a reading fiend like mine . I've crossed the Psalter with Brady and Tate , And laid the Primer above them all , I've nailed a horseshoe over the grate , And hung a wig to my parlour wall Once ...
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... never wrought at a pastry more fine , Brighter eyes never watched o'er its baking than thine ! And the prayer , which my mouth is too full to express , Swells my heart that thy shadow may never be less ; That the days of thy lot may be ...
... never wrought at a pastry more fine , Brighter eyes never watched o'er its baking than thine ! And the prayer , which my mouth is too full to express , Swells my heart that thy shadow may never be less ; That the days of thy lot may be ...
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... never failed the good to see , Nor judged by one unseemly bough The upward - struggling tree . These light leaves at thy feet I lay— Poor common thoughts on common things , Which time is shaking , day by day , Like feathers from his ...
... never failed the good to see , Nor judged by one unseemly bough The upward - struggling tree . These light leaves at thy feet I lay— Poor common thoughts on common things , Which time is shaking , day by day , Like feathers from his ...
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