The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... smile ( sniff - sniff ) , " You'll soon be a widder alone ( sniff - sniff — sniff ) , An ' when I am gone ( sniff - sniff ) don't you fuss an ' take on ( sniff - sniff ) Like old Widder Dorothy Day ( sniff — sniff ) . Look out fur your ...
... smile ( sniff - sniff ) , " You'll soon be a widder alone ( sniff - sniff — sniff ) , An ' when I am gone ( sniff - sniff ) don't you fuss an ' take on ( sniff - sniff ) Like old Widder Dorothy Day ( sniff — sniff ) . Look out fur your ...
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... smiling sleep , So beautiful and deep . " Oh , no ! and when I watched by thee the while , And saw thy bright lip curling in thy dream , And thought of the dark stream In my own land of Egypt , the far Nile , How prayed I that my ...
... smiling sleep , So beautiful and deep . " Oh , no ! and when I watched by thee the while , And saw thy bright lip curling in thy dream , And thought of the dark stream In my own land of Egypt , the far Nile , How prayed I that my ...
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... smile for all the lasses ; but she'd loved him all her life . A rollickin ' , gay young fellow , we thought her too good for him ; He'd been a bit wild and careless - but , married all taut and trim , We thought as he'd mend his manners ...
... smile for all the lasses ; but she'd loved him all her life . A rollickin ' , gay young fellow , we thought her too good for him ; He'd been a bit wild and careless - but , married all taut and trim , We thought as he'd mend his manners ...
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... smile triumphant illumes each face . Queen of the Prussians , now for a race , To Weimar for safety - fly ! She turned , and her steed with a furious dash-- Over the field like the lightning's flash- Fled . Away , like an arrow from ...
... smile triumphant illumes each face . Queen of the Prussians , now for a race , To Weimar for safety - fly ! She turned , and her steed with a furious dash-- Over the field like the lightning's flash- Fled . Away , like an arrow from ...
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... smile Awaits us at the gate , and Martha's hands Have long prepared the cheerful evening meal . Come , James , the Master waits , and Peter , see , Has gone some steps before . What say you , friends ? That this is Ephesus , and Christ ...
... smile Awaits us at the gate , and Martha's hands Have long prepared the cheerful evening meal . Come , James , the Master waits , and Peter , see , Has gone some steps before . What say you , friends ? That this is Ephesus , and Christ ...
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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...