A Volume of Original PoemsAugustus P. Clarke, 1911 - 117 pages |
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Page 116 - Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
Page 116 - Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not : for I am not yet ascended to my Father : but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God. 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.
Page 47 - Nocte pluit tota redeunt spectacula mane, Divisum imperium cum Jove Caesar habet...
Page 57 - Fill the water-pots ; and they filled them to the brim. Then he said unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the ruler of the feast ; and they bare it. When the ruler of the feast tasted the water that was made wine,.
Page 24 - May it not be here asked whether the sterner sex has lost all the simian traits, and shall we not answer the question by asking, And why not man be proud ? for how he came Or how evolved, he's surely not to blame. While reasoning thus an imp confounds his sight In form called plagiarism and hints that quite Not all of claim is past from apish age, When presence such stalks pulpit, desk and stage. May we not hope that by greater circumspection manifested on the part of the young woman by the influences...
Page 117 - ... of substance is universal, that the conservation of matter and of energy is inseparably connected, and that the ceaseless development of this substance follows the same "eternal iron laws," we find God in natural law itself. The will of God is at work in every falling drop of rain and every growing crystal, in the scent of the rose and the spirit of man.
Page 115 - ... procured a little muddy water, the most vigorous soldiers parched with thirst, and overcome by heat, sunk under the weight of their arms. Some watery low grounds promised a termination to the distresses, but it was only to plunge them into a greater and more complete debility.
Page 114 - Never did an army experience such great vissitudes and such painful privations. Tortured with the rays of a scorching sun during the day, marching on foot over a still more scorching sand, traversing an immense extent of dreary wastes, in which with difficulty, we...
Page 114 - Situated at the edge of the desert, at the mouth of the plains of Cœle-Syria and the valleys of Galilee, of Idumœa.
Page 115 - Dunglison, require arterial blood to excite them, more or less, stagnation takes place in the pulmonary capillaries.