The Maid He MarriedHerbert S. Stone, 1899 - 201 pages |
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Page 48 - So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb.
Page 181 - I think when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, How he called little children as lambs to his fold, I should like to have been with them then.
Page 34 - Lo ! such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod, Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God. 3 By cool Siloam's shady rill The lily must decay ; The rose, that blooms beneath the hill, Must shortly fade away.
Page 183 - Yes, you, like a ghostly cricket, creaking where a house was burned : "Dust and ashes, dead and done with, Venice spent what Venice earned. The soul, doubtless, is immortal — where a soul can be discerned.
Page 123 - Now the tones become clearer, — you hear more and more How the water divided returns on the oar, — Does the prow of the gondola strike on the stair ? Do the voices and instruments pause and prepare ? Oh ! they faint on the ear as the lamp on the view, " I am passing — Premi — but I stay not for you...
Page 131 - I'd have you buy and sell so, so give alms, Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : when you do dance, I wish you A wave of the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that...
Page 175 - Though the sound overpowers. Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone Of some world far from ours Where music and moonlight and feeling Are one.
Page 145 - Then they left you for their pleasure: till in due time, one by one, Some with lives that came to nothing, some with deeds as well undone, Death stepped tacitly and took them where they never see the sun.
Page 124 - Then return to your couch, you who stifle a tear, — Then awake not, fair sleeper — believe he is here; For the young and the loving no sorrow endures, If to-day be another's, to-morrow is yours ; May, the next time you listen, your fancy be true, " I am coming — sciar— and for you and to you! Sciar — and to you...