The Old Log School House: Furnitured with Incidents of School Life, Notes of Travel, Poetry, Hints to Teachers and Pupils, and Miscellaneous SketchesLeary, Getz & Company, 1861 - 288 pages |
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... dark in rank foliage farther away down the valley . It had been a day of merriment , for not often did the thinly spread population assemble for any purpose , and there were interested and questioning faces to scan for answers that ...
... dark in rank foliage farther away down the valley . It had been a day of merriment , for not often did the thinly spread population assemble for any purpose , and there were interested and questioning faces to scan for answers that ...
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... dark , stormy , winter days when the white earth and leaden sky gave a dull grayish tint to every face , he would build such a glowing fire as would cast coruscant gleams over every young brow , and send its warm , bright glances into ...
... dark , stormy , winter days when the white earth and leaden sky gave a dull grayish tint to every face , he would build such a glowing fire as would cast coruscant gleams over every young brow , and send its warm , bright glances into ...
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... dark wings above her for days and days , and at last left her to her friends and the world , but more than all , to the miserable boy , who day after day waited and watched with the closed portals of his soul widening slowly but surely ...
... dark wings above her for days and days , and at last left her to her friends and the world , but more than all , to the miserable boy , who day after day waited and watched with the closed portals of his soul widening slowly but surely ...
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... dark in regard to the young man's bashfulness and failure to propose . The time came for Benny to go to Philadelphia for the winter , and the house was in a stir of preparation . He would have to wear collars every day there , and carry ...
... dark in regard to the young man's bashfulness and failure to propose . The time came for Benny to go to Philadelphia for the winter , and the house was in a stir of preparation . He would have to wear collars every day there , and carry ...
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... dark . Little she knows this ; little thinks each brow Lightens , each heart grows purer with her eyes ; Good , honest eyes - clear , upward , righteous eyes , That look as if they saw the dim unseen , And learned from thence their deep ...
... dark . Little she knows this ; little thinks each brow Lightens , each heart grows purer with her eyes ; Good , honest eyes - clear , upward , righteous eyes , That look as if they saw the dim unseen , And learned from thence their deep ...
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Page 170 - But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more.
Page 257 - INTO the Silent Land ! Ah ! who shall lead us thither ? Clouds in the evening sky more darkly gather, And shattered wrecks lie thicker on the strand. Who leads us with a gentle hand Thither, O thither, Into the Silent Land...
Page 223 - Just as I am, without one plea, But that thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bidst me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come, I come!
Page 51 - Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place.
Page 177 - This book is all that's left me now, — Tears will unbidden start, — With faltering lip and throbbing brow I press it to my heart. For many generations past Here is our family tree; My mother's hands this Bible clasped, She, dying, gave it me.
Page 177 - God's word to hear. Her angel face — I see it yet ! What thronging memories come ! Again that little group is met Within the halls of home ! Thou truest friend man ever knew, Thy constancy I've tried; Where all were false I found thee true. My counsellor and guide. The mines of earth no treasure give That could this volume buy: In teaching me the way to live, It taught me how to die.
Page 33 - 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 88 - ... us to endure. Angel of Patience ! sent to calm Our feverish brows with cooling palm ; To lay the storms of hope and fear, And reconcile life's smile and tear ; The throbs of wounded pride to still, And make our own our Father's will...
Page 141 - For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Page 177 - Ah ! well do I remember those Whose names these records bear ; Who round the hearthstone used to close, After the evening prayer, And speak of what these pages said In tones my heart would thrill ! Though they are with the silent dead, Here are they living still ! My father read this holy book To brothers, sisters, dear...