John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Norway. Switzerland. Athens. VeniceBalch Brothers, 1903 - Asia |
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Page 254 - There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho' my lips may breathe adieu, I cannot think the thing farewell.
Page 212 - A palace lifting to eternal summer Its marble walls from out a glossy bower Of coolest foliage musical with birds...
Page 288 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: "Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." "Come, wander with me," she said, "Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvellous tale.
Page 234 - Row us out from Desenzano, to your Sirmione row ! So they row'd, and there we landed — 'O venusta Sirmio ! ' There to me thro' all the groves of olive in the summer glow, There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow, Came that 'Ave atque Vale...
Page 269 - Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers: And such she was; — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers.
Page 234 - Frater Ave atque Vale : Row us out from Desenzano, to your Sirmione row ! So they rowed, and there we landed - 'O venusta Sirmio!' There to me through all the groves of olive in the summer glow, There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow Came that 'Ave atque Vale...
Page 81 - Moreover, a few months later, the enemy having returned to the charge, Hofer and eighteen thousand mountaineers defeated the veteran French marshal Lefebvre and twentyfive thousand allied troops. For the third time the Tyrol was free. The peasant leader now became the ruler of the country. Coins were struck with his effigy, and proclamations were issued in his name. Yet this was not in the least a usurpation. The hero was as loyal as he was powerful ; as modest as he was brave. During his governTHE...
Page 233 - On the long-wished-for bed once more. This, this it is, that pays alone The ills of all life's former track ; Shine out, my beautiful, my own! Sweet SIrmio, greet thy master back! And thou, fair Lake, whose water quaffs The light of heaven, like Lydia's sea, Rejoice, rejoice, — let all that laughs Abroad, at home, laugh out for me!
Page 77 - Jesus, did not live to see the triumph of the cause for which he suffered.