The Silent Readers, Volume 8John C. Winston Company, 1920 |
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... - footed attendant lighted the watch- candles , and , having set them round the bed , tiptoed from the room . With the dark a silence more solemn and heavier than before seemed to settle on the chamber , lighted 7 OGIER THE DANE.
... - footed attendant lighted the watch- candles , and , having set them round the bed , tiptoed from the room . With the dark a silence more solemn and heavier than before seemed to settle on the chamber , lighted 7 OGIER THE DANE.
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... seemed to move . Worn out with watching , the nurses had fallen asleep ; and gradually the sweet gift of sleep came to the sorrowing King as well . His eyes closed and his arms dropped to his side . For a few hours his grief was ...
... seemed to move . Worn out with watching , the nurses had fallen asleep ; and gradually the sweet gift of sleep came to the sorrowing King as well . His eyes closed and his arms dropped to his side . For a few hours his grief was ...
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... seemed to him that he heard the sound of soft , distant music , and a sudden light that was not the light of the moon streamed across the bare , desolate rock . " This is death , " he murmured ; but as he said the words he thought he ...
... seemed to him that he heard the sound of soft , distant music , and a sudden light that was not the light of the moon streamed across the bare , desolate rock . " This is death , " he murmured ; but as he said the words he thought he ...
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... seemed to come from far away . As in a dream he saw a lovely face flit before him . Then he knew no more . Once again , after the lapse of what seemed an 13.
... seemed to come from far away . As in a dream he saw a lovely face flit before him . Then he knew no more . Once again , after the lapse of what seemed an 13.
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... seemed an eternity of time , Ogier awoke , and felt renewed within him all the strength of youth . He was still in the beautiful garden , and by his side stood a maiden . She was gowned in a filmy raiment bright as a butterfly's wing ...
... seemed an eternity of time , Ogier awoke , and felt renewed within him all the strength of youth . He was still in the beautiful garden , and by his side stood a maiden . She was gowned in a filmy raiment bright as a butterfly's wing ...
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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.