Story Hour Readings, Book 7American Book, 1921 |
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... birds left their nestlings , trees cast off their fruit , the earth yielded no harvest . 25 Pondering upon these things , the Dusky Hero with the Mighty Grasp strode into the hall . King Arthur saw him and called out , " Hast thou come ...
... birds left their nestlings , trees cast off their fruit , the earth yielded no harvest . 25 Pondering upon these things , the Dusky Hero with the Mighty Grasp strode into the hall . King Arthur saw him and called out , " Hast thou come ...
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... bird , and you know some things better than I know them . Come now , and help me temper this soft metal . Bring me a drop of your honey ; bring the sweet liquor which you suck from the meadow flower ; bring the magic dew of the wildwood ...
... bird , and you know some things better than I know them . Come now , and help me temper this soft metal . Bring me a drop of your honey ; bring the sweet liquor which you suck from the meadow flower ; bring the magic dew of the wildwood ...
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... bird , " he said . " Now I hope we shall have a better metal . I hope we shall make edges 10 that will cut and not be dulled so easily . " Thereupon he drew a bar of the metal , white hot , from the forge . He held it , hissing and ...
... bird , " he said . " Now I hope we shall have a better metal . I hope we shall make edges 10 that will cut and not be dulled so easily . " Thereupon he drew a bar of the metal , white hot , from the forge . He held it , hissing and ...
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... up the backbone of a great fish , and from it he invented the saw . Seeing how a certain bird carved holes in the trunks of trees , he learned how to make and use 40 A SHEAF OF LEGENDS the chisel . Then he. 39 James Baldwin.
... up the backbone of a great fish , and from it he invented the saw . Seeing how a certain bird carved holes in the trunks of trees , he learned how to make and use 40 A SHEAF OF LEGENDS the chisel . Then he. 39 James Baldwin.
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... birds . Early one morning , before King Minos had risen from his bed , they fastened on their wings , sprang into the air , and flew out of the city . Once fairly away from the island 25 they turned towards the west , for Dædalus had ...
... birds . Early one morning , before King Minos had risen from his bed , they fastened on their wings , sprang into the air , and flew out of the city . Once fairly away from the island 25 they turned towards the west , for Dædalus had ...
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Page 190 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?" Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 339 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?
Page 319 - An hour passed on — the Turk awoke; That bright dream was his last; He woke — to hear his sentries shriek, "To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!
Page 341 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
Page 206 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 331 - WARREN'S ADDRESS AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL BY JOHN PIERPONT QTAND! the ground's your own, my braves! ^ Will ye give it up to slaves?
Page 332 - He is an American, who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.
Page 355 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 409 - The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 194 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.