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beautiful blessed body bright Caroline Woodruff child comes dark dear death delight dress earth EDWARD ROWLAND SILL enjoyed enjoyment eternal eyes faith father fear feel flowers fresh friends G. K. CHESTerton girls give glorious God's grow old Hale hand happy hath heart heaven hills hope hour human immortal J. R. SEELEY JAMES MARTINEAU JOHN GREENLeaf Whittier JOSIAH QUINCY leaves life's light live LONGFELLOW look Lord LYDIA MARIA CHILD MADAME SWETCHINE MARGARET ELIOT mind morning mortality mother mountains nature ness never night o'er old age OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES ORVILLE DEWEY pain peace pleasant pleasure quiet seems shalt sight SIR THOMAS BERNARD snow sorrow soul spirit strength strong summer sweet thee THEODORE PARKER thine things thought threescore tion trees trust ture waiting weary WILLIAM MOUNTFORD woman young youth
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Page 68 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 91 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
Page 52 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 159 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 159 - The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So, calm are we when passions are no more! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost.
Page 34 - The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return.
Page 19 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 177 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 3 - Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached its term: Thence shall I pass, approved A man, for aye removed From the developed brute; a god, though in the germ.
Page 176 - And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.