The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & RomanceGeo. Henderson, 1867 |
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... light Gleam on great Hertha's forehead bright , E'en as she listens to the flight And , as they are ringing , Sweet angels seem singing Of Sabbath Bells . A tuneful hymn in measured cadence deep : That melody pealing My senses keeps ...
... light Gleam on great Hertha's forehead bright , E'en as she listens to the flight And , as they are ringing , Sweet angels seem singing Of Sabbath Bells . A tuneful hymn in measured cadence deep : That melody pealing My senses keeps ...
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... light from every tree and stalk , for the preser- vation of animal life and the ultimate melting of these accumulated drifts . Around each trunk or stone the snow has melted and fallen back . It is a singular fact , established beyond ...
... light from every tree and stalk , for the preser- vation of animal life and the ultimate melting of these accumulated drifts . Around each trunk or stone the snow has melted and fallen back . It is a singular fact , established beyond ...
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... light cellular bed covered by drift , six , eight , or do not clutch us , we know that they are there . ten feet ... light and crystal- lization : some crystals have a tendency to grow toward the light , and others develop electricity ...
... light cellular bed covered by drift , six , eight , or do not clutch us , we know that they are there . ten feet ... light and crystal- lization : some crystals have a tendency to grow toward the light , and others develop electricity ...
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... light brown towards it its allied atoms , and these arranging dust had been sprinkled over them . themselves as if they moved to music , and fresher the snow , the more marked the colours , ended with rendering that music concrete ...
... light brown towards it its allied atoms , and these arranging dust had been sprinkled over them . themselves as if they moved to music , and fresher the snow , the more marked the colours , ended with rendering that music concrete ...
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... light of long , long years ago came to the bent face , and , kneeling like a child at his mother's knee , the doctor prayed , " Lord , I believe ! Help thou my unbelief ! Oh , in the coming hour of trial , God help me ! God help me ...
... light of long , long years ago came to the bent face , and , kneeling like a child at his mother's knee , the doctor prayed , " Lord , I believe ! Help thou my unbelief ! Oh , in the coming hour of trial , God help me ! God help me ...
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Page 20 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.
Page 170 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.
Page 44 - New mercies each returning day Hover around us while we pray — New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.
Page 19 - TO THE MUSES. WHETHER on Ida's shady brow Or in the chambers of the East, The chambers of the Sun, that now From ancient melody have ceased ; Whether in heaven ye wander fair Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air, Where the melodious winds have birth...
Page 1 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Page 125 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home...
Page 74 - Tis the Spring's largess, which she scatters now To rich and poor alike, with lavish hand, Though most hearts never understand To take it at God's value, but pass by The offered wealth with unrewarded eye.
Page 83 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 61 - Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Page 74 - When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book.