Gatherings from many authors, by P.S. SparlingPhilip Smith Sparling 1854 |
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... winds of Heaven mix for ever , With a soft emotion- Nothing in this world is single ; All things , by a law divine In one another's beings mingle- Why not I with thine ? See - the mountains kiss high Heaven , And the waves clasp one ...
... winds of Heaven mix for ever , With a soft emotion- Nothing in this world is single ; All things , by a law divine In one another's beings mingle- Why not I with thine ? See - the mountains kiss high Heaven , And the waves clasp one ...
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... wind , or dew upon the flower ; A friendless slave , a child without a sire , Whose mental life , a momentary fire , Light to the grave his Chance - created form , As ocean - wrecks illuminate the storm ; And when the gun's tremendous ...
... wind , or dew upon the flower ; A friendless slave , a child without a sire , Whose mental life , a momentary fire , Light to the grave his Chance - created form , As ocean - wrecks illuminate the storm ; And when the gun's tremendous ...
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... winds of Nature's strife Be all the faithless charter of my life : If Chance awaked , inexorable power , This frail and feverish being of an hour ; Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep , Swift as the tempest travels on the ...
... winds of Nature's strife Be all the faithless charter of my life : If Chance awaked , inexorable power , This frail and feverish being of an hour ; Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep , Swift as the tempest travels on the ...
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... prayer- Lip mockery of the worm that sits Within the scorner's chair ! II . There are no clouds to chequer night , The winds are hush'd , the skies serene , And Nature , outlined darkly bright , Is still distinctly 40 GATHERINGS FROM.
... prayer- Lip mockery of the worm that sits Within the scorner's chair ! II . There are no clouds to chequer night , The winds are hush'd , the skies serene , And Nature , outlined darkly bright , Is still distinctly 40 GATHERINGS FROM.
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... wind , and rain ! Around lurks shipwreck - hidden rocks Beneath the billows darkling lie ; Death threatens in the breakers ' shocks , And thunder - cloven sky ! IV . Hearken to Truth ! Though joys remain , And friends unchanged and ...
... wind , and rain ! Around lurks shipwreck - hidden rocks Beneath the billows darkling lie ; Death threatens in the breakers ' shocks , And thunder - cloven sky ! IV . Hearken to Truth ! Though joys remain , And friends unchanged and ...
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Page 84 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 92 - Yet, though I cannot be beloved, Still let me love! My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile. The hope, the fear, the jealous care, The exalted portion of the pain And power of love, I cannot share, But wear the chain.
Page 72 - From Greenland's icy mountains ; From India's coral strand ; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river ; From many a palmy plain ; They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 85 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Page 92 - The sword, the banner, and the field, Glory and Greece, around me see! The Spartan, borne upon his shield, Was not more free.
Page 86 - Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.
Page 98 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 98 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 5 - Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; and transport the sailor and the traveller thousands of miles away, back to his own fireside and his quiet home!