The Galaxy: A Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Volume 2

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Mark Twain
W. C. & F. P. Church, 1866
 

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Page 509 - With all the mournful voices of the dirges pour'd around the coffin, The dim-lit churches and the shuddering organs — where amid these you journey, With the tolling tolling bells' perpetual clang, Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac.
Page 509 - But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first, Copious I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes, With loaded arms I come, pouring for you, For you and the coffins all of you...
Page 8 - ... together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances, thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits, thereof ; and also, all the estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand, whatsoever, as well in law as in equity, of the said party of the first part, of, in or to, the above-described premises, and every part and parcel thereof, with the appurtenances...
Page 8 - WITNESSETH, That the said party of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of Twelve thousand Dollars in hand paid by the said party of the second part...
Page 509 - O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved ? And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone? And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?
Page 614 - In a country of unbounded liberty, they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality, they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where property is more evenly divided than anywhere else, they rend the air shouting agrarian doctrines. In a country where wages of labor are high beyond parallel, they would teach the laborer he is but an oppressed slave.
Page 8 - ... all the estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever, as well in law as in equity, of the said party of the first part, of, in, and to the same, and every part and parcel thereof, with the appurtenances.
Page 509 - States themselves as of crape-veil'd women, standing, With processions long and winding, and the flambeaus of the night, With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads, With the waiting depot, the arriving coffin, and the...
Page 254 - O FRESH, how fresh and fair Through the crystal gulfs of air, The fairy South Wind floateth on her subtle wings of balm! And the green earth lapped in bliss, To the magic of her kiss Seems yearning upward fondly through the golden-crested calm! From the distant Tropic strand, Where the billows, bright and bland, Go creeping, curling round the palms with sweet, faint undertune From its fields of purpling flowers Still wet with fragrant showers. The happy South Wind lingering sweeps the royal blooms...
Page 507 - YEAR that trembled and reel'd beneath me ! Your summer wind was warm enough, yet the air I breathed froze me, A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darkeh'd me, Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself, Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled?

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