The Silent Readers, Volume 8John C. Winston Company, 1920 |
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... passed . and moaned softly by the casements , sodden leaves on the garden path below . the candles flickered and went out , the the flame before it died shining on the features of the dead Queen so that they seemed to move . Worn out ...
... passed . and moaned softly by the casements , sodden leaves on the garden path below . the candles flickered and went out , the the flame before it died shining on the features of the dead Queen so that they seemed to move . Worn out ...
Page 9
... passed as they had come , and the door swung noiselessly behind them . The gray light of dawn brightened , the last of the guttering candles went out , and a ray of sun shone through the casement . One by one the sleep - dazed watchers ...
... passed as they had come , and the door swung noiselessly behind them . The gray light of dawn brightened , the last of the guttering candles went out , and a ray of sun shone through the casement . One by one the sleep - dazed watchers ...
Page 10
... passed since our vessel was wrecked and we were cast here ashore . Five days ago my last companion died , having eaten the last of the bread that was left . And yet I cannot die ! Nay , it even seems to me that my old strength is ...
... passed since our vessel was wrecked and we were cast here ashore . Five days ago my last companion died , having eaten the last of the bread that was left . And yet I cannot die ! Nay , it even seems to me that my old strength is ...
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... passed through the gate of death , and had attained the land of Paradise , and , wondering , he stepped ashore . But directly his feet touched land a coldness struck through his limbs , and he felt his strength ebbing fast . Tottering ...
... passed through the gate of death , and had attained the land of Paradise , and , wondering , he stepped ashore . But directly his feet touched land a coldness struck through his limbs , and he felt his strength ebbing fast . Tottering ...
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... passed , for not only was he big and strong and dangerous - looking , but something in his eyes struck them with awe . On her part the Queen looked at him admiringly as he knelt down with true courtliness to kiss her hand . " What is ...
... passed , for not only was he big and strong and dangerous - looking , but something in his eyes struck them with awe . On her part the Queen looked at him admiringly as he knelt down with true courtliness to kiss her hand . " What is ...
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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.