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Page 56
... tops the autumnal air Murmurs , and spectral in the fading light A solitary heron wings its way Southward save this no sound or touch of life . Dark is that window where the scholar's lamp Was used to catch a pallor from the dawn .
... tops the autumnal air Murmurs , and spectral in the fading light A solitary heron wings its way Southward save this no sound or touch of life . Dark is that window where the scholar's lamp Was used to catch a pallor from the dawn .
Page 58
The afterglow has faded from the elms , And in the denser darkness of the boughs From time to time the firefly's tiny lamp Sparkles . How often in still summer dusks He paused to note that transient phantom spark Flash on the air -- a ...
The afterglow has faded from the elms , And in the denser darkness of the boughs From time to time the firefly's tiny lamp Sparkles . How often in still summer dusks He paused to note that transient phantom spark Flash on the air -- a ...
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Life is indeed a flower which a morning withers and the beat of a passing wing breaks down ; it is the widow's lamp , which the slightest blast of air extinguishes . In order to realize the poetry which clings to morning roses ...
Life is indeed a flower which a morning withers and the beat of a passing wing breaks down ; it is the widow's lamp , which the slightest blast of air extinguishes . In order to realize the poetry which clings to morning roses ...
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THE OLD STREET LAMP Did you ever hear the story of the old Street Lamp ? It is not very remarkable , but it may be listened to for once in a way . It was a very honest old Lamp , that had done its work for many , many years , but which ...
THE OLD STREET LAMP Did you ever hear the story of the old Street Lamp ? It is not very remarkable , but it may be listened to for once in a way . It was a very honest old Lamp , that had done its work for many , many years , but which ...
Page 87
In this last case anything might be made of it ; but the question whether it would remember , in its new state , that it had been a Street Lamp , troubled it terribly . Whatever might happen , this much was certain , that it would be ...
In this last case anything might be made of it ; but the question whether it would remember , in its new state , that it had been a Street Lamp , troubled it terribly . Whatever might happen , this much was certain , that it would be ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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