The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... rolls by . The scream of a whistle ! the rush of a train ! The sound of a bell ! a mysterious light That flashes and flares through the fast - falling rain ! A rumble ! a roar ! shrieks of human affright ! The falling of timbers ! the ...
... rolls by . The scream of a whistle ! the rush of a train ! The sound of a bell ! a mysterious light That flashes and flares through the fast - falling rain ! A rumble ! a roar ! shrieks of human affright ! The falling of timbers ! the ...
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... rolling shoreward to break and die beneath the noonday sun ; on the red clouds of evening , arching low to the ho- rizon ; on the serene and shining pathway of the stars . Let us think that his dying eyes read a mystic meaning which ...
... rolling shoreward to break and die beneath the noonday sun ; on the red clouds of evening , arching low to the ho- rizon ; on the serene and shining pathway of the stars . Let us think that his dying eyes read a mystic meaning which ...
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... rolls the mighty river to the sea ; He bids the fountains rise eternally . Men say the god is angered , none may know Unless one to his hidden cave should go . But who in heat like this would dare the task ; Who find the price the angry ...
... rolls the mighty river to the sea ; He bids the fountains rise eternally . Men say the god is angered , none may know Unless one to his hidden cave should go . But who in heat like this would dare the task ; Who find the price the angry ...
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... rolls by . " " Down with him ! Kill the traitor cur ! " Rang out the savage cry . Up rose the blacksmith , then , and held Erect his head of gray : " I am no traitor , though I bowed To a rich man's son to - day ; And though you kill me ...
... rolls by . " " Down with him ! Kill the traitor cur ! " Rang out the savage cry . Up rose the blacksmith , then , and held Erect his head of gray : " I am no traitor , though I bowed To a rich man's son to - day ; And though you kill me ...
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... rolling trade - stream is flowing , Out where new firesides with love - lights are glowing , Out where the graves of their life - hopes are sleeping , Not to be comforted , -- weeping , still weeping ; Out where the high hills of ...
... rolling trade - stream is flowing , Out where new firesides with love - lights are glowing , Out where the graves of their life - hopes are sleeping , Not to be comforted , -- weeping , still weeping ; Out where the high hills of ...
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Page 216 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 131 - God! who art never out of hearing, O may he never more be warm!" The cold, cold moon above her head, Thus on her knees did Goody pray;' Young Harry heard what she had said: And icy cold he turned away.
Page 11 - I live for those who love me, For those who know me true ; For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too ; For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
Page 24 - ... hopelessness. Gently, silently, the love of a great people bore the pale sufferer to the longed-for healing of the sea, to live or to die, as God should will, within sight of its heaving billows, within sound of its manifold voices.
Page 145 - Waft— waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our...