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... streams By happy , silent moony beams ! Sweet sleep , with soft down Weave thy brows an infant crown ! BERKHAMPSTEAD RECTORY Blake . ' Tis now become a history little known , That once we called the pastoral house our own . Cowper . THE ...
... streams By happy , silent moony beams ! Sweet sleep , with soft down Weave thy brows an infant crown ! BERKHAMPSTEAD RECTORY Blake . ' Tis now become a history little known , That once we called the pastoral house our own . Cowper . THE ...
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... Streams never flow in vain ; where streams abound , How laughs the land with various plenty crown'd ! Cowper . The Mouth of the Dart . Sometimes swift , sometimes slow , Wave succeeding wave , they go A various journey to the deep ...
... Streams never flow in vain ; where streams abound , How laughs the land with various plenty crown'd ! Cowper . The Mouth of the Dart . Sometimes swift , sometimes slow , Wave succeeding wave , they go A various journey to the deep ...
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... stream , at a critical moment , decided the fate of an empire , and changed the course of our world's history . The soul , too , has the crisis of its fate to meet , and its Rubicon to cross . Yet how many linger and delay ; shrinking ...
... stream , at a critical moment , decided the fate of an empire , and changed the course of our world's history . The soul , too , has the crisis of its fate to meet , and its Rubicon to cross . Yet how many linger and delay ; shrinking ...
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... stream— To bright wings dipping from the sultry beam , Hope to the mourner , to the weary rest , To the young ... streams their pleasure be , As thy young mother , why she dotes on thee With such unmeasured , fond intensity ! I cannot ...
... stream— To bright wings dipping from the sultry beam , Hope to the mourner , to the weary rest , To the young ... streams their pleasure be , As thy young mother , why she dotes on thee With such unmeasured , fond intensity ! I cannot ...
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... stream . Softly and silently , but with ever - growing speed , the tiny vessel shot down the river with its glad unconscious freight . The mother raised her bended back and looked . She saw her child carried quickly by the current ...
... stream . Softly and silently , but with ever - growing speed , the tiny vessel shot down the river with its glad unconscious freight . The mother raised her bended back and looked . She saw her child carried quickly by the current ...
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Page 35 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 142 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...
Page 140 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 163 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Page 38 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child.
Page 38 - I have nought that is fair?" saith he; "Have nought but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves.
Page 137 - Make me a fire, Close by whose living coal I sit, And glow like it. Lord, I confess too, when I dine, The pulse is thine, And all those other bits that be There placed by thee; The worts, the purslain, and the mess Of...
Page 199 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Page xiv - At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 41 - They climbed the steep ascent of heaven Through peril, toil, and pain : O God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train.