Readings and Recitations: A New and Choice Collection of Articles in Prose and Verse ..., Том 1

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National temperance society and publication house, 1878

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Страница 28 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die : Into the valley of death Eode the six hundred.
Страница 55 - Aid the dawning, tongue and pen ; Aid it, hopes of honest men ; Aid it, paper, aid it, type, Aid it, for the hour is ripe ; And our earnest must not slacken Into play. Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way.
Страница 55 - Lo! a cloud's about to vanish From the day; And a brazen wrong to crumble Into clay. Lo! the Right's about to conquer; Clear the way! With the right shall many more Enter smiling at the door; With the giant, Wrong, shall fall Many others, great and small, That for ages long have held us For their prey. Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way!
Страница 16 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions ? who hath babbling ? who hath wounds without cause ; who hath redness of eye ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Страница 87 - We stooped beside the trundle-bed, And one long ray of lamplight shed Athwart the boyish faces there, In sleep so pitiful and fair ; I saw on Jamie's rough red cheek, A tear undried. Ere John could speak, " He's but a baby, too," said I, And kissed him as we hurried by.
Страница 17 - The waters have gone over me. But out of the black depths, could I be heard, I would cry out to all those who have but set a foot in the perilous flood.
Страница 17 - Could the youth, to whom the flavor of his first wine is delicious as the opening scenes of life or the entering upon some newly discovered paradise, look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will, — to see his destruction and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself...
Страница 43 - To all, the truth, we tell ! we tell !" Shouted in ecstasies a bell ; " Come all ye weary wanderers, see ! Our Lord has made salvation free ! Repent, believe, have faith, and then Be saved, and praise the Lord, Amen ! Salvation's free, we tell ! we tell !" Shouted the Methodistic bell.
Страница 86 - I will give A house and land while you shall live, If, in return, from out your seven, One child to me for aye is given.' " I looked at John's old garments worn, I thought of all that John had borne Of poverty, and work, and care, Which I, though willing...
Страница 17 - ... desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will— to see his destruction, and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself; to perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not...

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