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... rest- Until the lights nocturnal Shone out on fields eternal . Then distant - hark ! tramp , tramp is heard ! A courser on the highway ; And now dismounts a horseman spurred , And straight comes up the byway . And hark , and hark , the ...
... rest- Until the lights nocturnal Shone out on fields eternal . Then distant - hark ! tramp , tramp is heard ! A courser on the highway ; And now dismounts a horseman spurred , And straight comes up the byway . And hark , and hark , the ...
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... boys in the world would be girls , and the rest would be dolls . My papa is so nice , that I think he must have been a little girl when he was a little boy . " ABOUT BARBERS . ALL things change except barbers , the 28 WERNER'S READINGS.
... boys in the world would be girls , and the rest would be dolls . My papa is so nice , that I think he must have been a little girl when he was a little boy . " ABOUT BARBERS . ALL things change except barbers , the 28 WERNER'S READINGS.
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... rest , I heard The sound of a young baby's cry . It was one o ' those loud , aggravatin ' - like yells , O ' the pattern that makes you jist itch For a gun or an axe , an ' excites up your mind With wild thoughts o ' murder an ' sich ...
... rest , I heard The sound of a young baby's cry . It was one o ' those loud , aggravatin ' - like yells , O ' the pattern that makes you jist itch For a gun or an axe , an ' excites up your mind With wild thoughts o ' murder an ' sich ...
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... rest ! Dear me just think , half a century back ! I haven't a hair , so thick once and black ! My grandson's a man and my son's beard is white . Youth's sunny day Fast , too fast , ebbs away , But age's chill eve slowly melts into night ...
... rest ! Dear me just think , half a century back ! I haven't a hair , so thick once and black ! My grandson's a man and my son's beard is white . Youth's sunny day Fast , too fast , ebbs away , But age's chill eve slowly melts into night ...
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... rests over there ! Farewell , old fellow ; this gout in my knee Puts quite a distance between you and me . Sometime I'll try , though , to get up above , When I feel in the way , As I have done to - day , With young Jack in my chair by ...
... rests over there ! Farewell , old fellow ; this gout in my knee Puts quite a distance between you and me . Sometime I'll try , though , to get up above , When I feel in the way , As I have done to - day , With young Jack in my chair by ...
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Page 110 - What thou art we know not : what is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
Page 110 - Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy, whose race is just begun.
Page 111 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.
Page 137 - His horsemen hard behind us ride; Should they our steps discover, Then who will cheer my bonny bride, When they have slain her lover?
Page 158 - We be two strong men," said Kamal then, "but she loveth the younger best. So she shall go with a lifter's dower, my turquoise-studded rein, My broidered saddle and saddlecloth, and silver stirrups twain." The Colonel's son a pistol drew and held it muzzle-end, "Ye have taken the one from a foe," said he; "will ye take the mate from a friend ? " "A gift for a gift," said Kamal straight; "a limb for the risk of a limb.
Page 158 - Lightly answered the Colonel's son: "Do good to bird and beast, But count who come for the broken meats before thou makest a feast. If there should follow a thousand swords to carry my bones away, Belike the price of a jackal's meal were more than a thief could pay. They will feed their horse on the standing crop, their men on the garnered grain, The thatch of the byres will serve their fires when all the cattle are slain. But if thou thinkest the price be fair, — thy brethren wait to sup.
Page 110 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 156 - And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride: He has lifted her out of the stable-door between the dawn and the day, And turned the calkins upon her feet, and ridden her far away. Then up and spoke the Colonel's son that led a troop of the Guides : 'Is there never a man of all my men can say where Kamal hides?
Page 160 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat ; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho...
Page 158 - May I eat dirt if thou hast hurt of me in deed or breath; What dam of lances brought thee forth to jest at the dawn with Death?' Lightly answered the Colonel's son: 'I hold by the blood of my clan: Take up the mare for my father's gift - by God, she has carried a man!' The red mare ran to the Colonel's son, and nuzzled against his breast; 'We be two strong men/ said Kamal then, 'but she loveth the younger best.