Manual for Special Day Exercises, 1904: Issued ... for Use in the Schools of Iowa for the Years 1904 and 19051904 - Schools - 87 pages |
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Arbor Day beauty Betsey's Battle Flag Bird Day birds go North blessed bluebird bobolink buds bugle caterpillar children of men clover color dead dear dear old flag Decoration Day eyes fathers feet flag we'll raise flowers forest forestry girl glad good-by grass grow hath hear heart heerd hill Hurrah insects James Whitcomb Riley keer of yourse'f kind land Lay him low leaf liberty Little Bird Blue Little Brown Acorn little plant Lord maple marchin MEMORIAL DAY moisture morning nation Nature Study nest night o'er OTTUMWA pine plantation punkin PUPIL pussy Recitation robin roots Rudyard Kipling school-ground seeds sing snow soil Song Star-spangled battle flag stars stripes sweet peas Take keer teacher tell thankful Thanksgiving Day Thanksgiving long ago Thee theyr thou trees turkey twigs wave wind winter Youth's Companion
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Page 84 - And only the Master shall praise us. and only the Master shall blame: And no one shall work for money. and no one shall work for fame. But each for the joy of the working. and each. in his separate star. Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!
Page 49 - Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye.
Page 49 - When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there!
Page 83 - Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget...
Page 56 - In the God of battles trust! Die we may — and die we must; But, O where can dust to dust Be consigned so well, As where Heaven its dews shall shed On the martyred patriot's bed, And the rocks shall raise their head, Of his deeds to tell...
Page 83 - The tumult and the shouting dies — The captains and the kings depart — Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart.
Page 63 - O CAPTAIN ! my Captain ! our fearful trip is done ; The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring. But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies. Fallen cold and dead.
Page 74 - My native country, thee — Land of the noble free — Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Page 10 - I pity the withered grass at my root." •'You think I am dead," The quick grass said, " Because I have parted with stem and blade ; But under the ground . I am safe and sound With the snow's thick blanket over me laid. I'm all alive, and ready to shoot, Should the spring of the year Come dancing here — But I pity the flower without branch or root." "You think I am dead," A soft voice said, "Because not a branch or root I own!
Page 49 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven.