The Silent Readers, Volume 8John C. Winston Company, 1920 |
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... asking his name and station . He answers that men call him the Ancient Knight , and that he has come from St. Omer to fight in the King's battles . Then , casting a puzzled glance at the motley crowd around him , all townsmen ...
... asking his name and station . He answers that men call him the Ancient Knight , and that he has come from St. Omer to fight in the King's battles . Then , casting a puzzled glance at the motley crowd around him , all townsmen ...
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... asked , " and from what land do you come ? " " Lady , " answered Ogier , " it were easy to tell thee the land of my birth , but for a long time now I have dwelt in another country far away from here , and in very truth I forget its name ...
... asked , " and from what land do you come ? " " Lady , " answered Ogier , " it were easy to tell thee the land of my birth , but for a long time now I have dwelt in another country far away from here , and in very truth I forget its name ...
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... asked about men who have been dead these hundred years . God grant that he has not come to work us ill . " She bent down and gazed with curiosity at Ogier's out- stretched hand , on the forefinger of which gleamed brightly the ring ...
... asked about men who have been dead these hundred years . God grant that he has not come to work us ill . " She bent down and gazed with curiosity at Ogier's out- stretched hand , on the forefinger of which gleamed brightly the ring ...
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... asked . " Oh , I have dreamed of weary things - of death and fear and pain . Let us go quickly before the dream returns ! " So , taking him by the hand , she led him swiftly through the palace and out at the gate , and it was early dawn ...
... asked . " Oh , I have dreamed of weary things - of death and fear and pain . Let us go quickly before the dream returns ! " So , taking him by the hand , she led him swiftly through the palace and out at the gate , and it was early dawn ...
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... asked . " It is the house of God , but there is no harm in entering it quietly and looking about . " With some shyness the little fellow confessed that he was afraid to go in because the zeal might jump out at him from under a pew or ...
... asked . " It is the house of God , but there is no harm in entering it quietly and looking about . " With some shyness the little fellow confessed that he was afraid to go in because the zeal might jump out at him from under a pew or ...
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Page 185 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 180 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 239 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Page 301 - November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh; The short'ning winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose: The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant...
Page 3 - In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Page 68 - I would not sit in the scorner's seat. Or hurl the cynic's ban — Let me live in a house by the side of the road...
Page 69 - Let me live in a house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by — The men who are good and the men who are bad, As good and as bad as I.
Page 239 - ... Nature, they say,. doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed, Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead ; One whose meek flock the people joyed to be, Not lured by any cheat of birth, But by...
Page 296 - Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That " maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it. Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that; At least no one ever has done it...
Page 293 - Well he's a fine accountant, but if I'd send him up town on an errand, he might accomplish the errand all right, and on the other hand, might stop at four saloons on the way, and when he got to Main Street, would forget what he had been sent for.