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Page 81 - A land of beauty, virtue, valor, truth, Time-tutored age and love-exalted youth: The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ; In every clime the magnet...
Page 76 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home; A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there, Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. Home, Home, sweet, sweet Home ! There's no place like Home...
Page 66 - A dreary place would be this earth> Were there no little people in it: The song of life would lose its mirth, Were there no children to begin it...
Page 81 - Here woman reigns : the mother, daughter, wife, Strew with fresh flowers the narrow way of life ! In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found?
Page 42 - Still through our paltry stir and strife Glows down the wished ideal, And longing moulds in clay what life Carves in the marble real : To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the portal : Perhaps the longing to be so Helps make the soul immortal.
Page 81 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? " Art thou a man — a patriot ? look around, O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Page 107 - that many should come from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, and sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of God.
Page 101 - Bible, but to the suffrages of the wisest and best of men in all ages and nations. They well know (whether Christians know it or not), that the giving up of witchcraft* is, in effect, giving up the Bible...
Page 20 - You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand, Such as I am: though for myself alone I would not be ambitious in my wish To wish myself much better, yet for you I would be trebled twenty times myself, A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times More rich; That only to stand high in your account, I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends, Exceed account.
Page 49 - Thou didst thy best — that is success!" ANONYMOUS. Straight from the Mighty Bow, this truth is driven: " They fail, and they alone, who have not striven." Fly far, O shaft of light, all doubt redeeming, Rouse men from dull despair and idle dreaming. High Heaven's Evangel be, gospel God-given; They fail, and they alone, vjho have not striven.