When thieves fall out, Volume 2 |
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Page 130 - I humble myself before God, I do not know that it is forbidden to repel the attacks of unjust and inconsiderate men. The patience of Job is proverbial. After some of the convulsive struggles of our irritable nature, he submitted himself, and repented in dust and ashes. But even so, I do not find him blamed for reprehending, and with a considerable degree of verbal asperity, those ill-natured neighbours of his, who visited his dunghill to read moral, political, and economical lectures on his misery.
Page 91 - ... makes fickle troth, Scorn of me recoils on you. Learn to win a lady's faith Nobly, as the thing is high ; Bravely, as for life and death — With a loyal gravity. Lead her from the festive boards, Point her to the starry skies, Guard her, by your truthful words, Pure from courtship's flatteries. By your truth she shall be true — Ever true, as wives of yore — And her Yes, once said to you, SHALL be Yes for evermore.
Page 33 - And by the bed flickered the taper's light, Whereby I trembled, gazing at the moon : Ah me ! the meeting that we had, when soon Into his strong, well-trusted arms I fell And many a sorrow we began to tell. "Ah me ! what parting on that night we had! I think the story of my great despair A little while might merry folk make sad...
Page 201 - And three hundred years had stood mute adown each hoary wood, Like a full heart having prayed. • And the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west, Toll slowly.
Page 136 - My thread is small, my thread is fine, But he must be A stronger than thee, Who can break this thread of mine...
Page 106 - Tis not the frost that freezes fell, Nor blawing thaw's inclemency; 'Tis not sic cauld that makes me cry. But my love's heart grown cauld to me. When we came in by Glasgow town. We were a comely sight to see; My love was clad in the black velvet, And I mysel in cramasie.
Page 106 - That love had been sae ill to win; 1 had locked my heart in a case of gowd And pinned it with a siller pin. And, O! if my young babe were born, And sat upon the nurse's knee, And I mysel were dead and gane, And the green grass growing over me! BONNIE BOON YE banks and braes o' bonnie Boon, How can ye bloom sae fair!
Page 172 - And so it was, the great God did preserve us, I believe, for his own name's sake. It was the time called Christmas-eve, and very cold ; and we had, for two days, little sustenance for our bodies ; and many times our heads were under the great waves, which rolled over us after...
Page 242 - ... how, when one by one, sweet sounds And wandering lights departed, He wore no less a loving face, Because so broken-hearted— " He shall be strong to sanctify The poet's high vocation, And bow the meekest Christian down...
Page 49 - Let us push bravely on alone, though each must bear a broken heart, 'tis duty severs us, mine own, 'tis duty keeps our paths apart. Farewell ; we both shall walk in night, I love you, though I part from you, you would not have me shun the right because the right is hard to do. Farewell in love, farewell in tears, hard ways await our lonely feet ; but God, maybe in after years, at last will let our pathways meet.