Contributions to HerographyE. Darrow, 1850 - 101 pages |
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... hope thinks infinite , To forgive wrongs darker than death or night , To defy power that seems omnipotent , To love and bear , to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates , Neither to change , nor flatter ...
... hope thinks infinite , To forgive wrongs darker than death or night , To defy power that seems omnipotent , To love and bear , to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates , Neither to change , nor flatter ...
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Page 14 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, and fondly broods with miser care ; time but the impression deeper makes, as streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 13 - Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest-? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast...
Page 53 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Page 32 - Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 19 - Faith, he maunna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that; Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may,— As come it will for a' that,— That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a
Page 12 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
Page 12 - And mouldering now in silent dust That heart that lo'ed me dearly ! But still within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary.
Page 14 - She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight...
Page 13 - Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah, little thought we 'twas our last ) Ayr gurgling kiss'd his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods thick'ning green : The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.
Page 19 - Our toils obscure an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey, an' a that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A Man's a Man for a