Beyond the West: Containing an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Other Half of Our Great Continent Far Beyond the Old West, on the Plains, in the Rocky Mountains, and Picturesque Parks of Colorado. Also, Characteristic Features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the End of the West ... the Great Continental Railroad, Together with the ... Most Wonderful Natural Scenery in the World ... |
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Page 394 - GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. "We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers.
Page 37 - What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 74 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 212 - We may live without poetry music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
Page 446 - The deser', forest, cavern, breaker's foam, Were unto him companionship ; they spake A mutual language, clearer than the tome Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake For Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake.
Page 41 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, when.- soon Shall roll a human sea.
Page 330 - And verily, verily I say unto you, that whatsoever you seal on earth, shall be sealed in heaven; and whatsoever you bind on earth, in my name, and by my word, saith the Lord, it shall be eternally bound in the heavens...
Page 327 - If thou hast crush'da flower, The root may not be blighted ; If thou hast quench'da lamp, Once more it may be lighted ; But on thy harp or on thy lute, The string which thou hast broken, Shall never in sweet sound again Give to thy touch a token...
Page 72 - From their foundations loosening to and fro They plucked the seated hills with all their load, ROCKS, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands : amaze, Be sure, and terror, seized the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The bottom of the mountains upward turned ; Till on those cursed engines...
Page 82 - f can't" is a dwarf, a poor> pale, puny imp, His eyes are half blind, and his walk is a limp ; He stumbles and falls or lies writhing with fear, Though dangers are distant, and succor is near.