A Bundle of Letters from Over the SeaCupples, 1889 - 294 páginas |
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Página 160 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Página 14 - JESUS shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run ; His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
Página 18 - Thomas, because thou hast seen thou hast believed ; blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed...
Página 41 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps...
Página 60 - To tell of thy loving-kindness early in the morning, and of thy truth in the night season ; 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the lute ; upon a loud instrument, and upon the harp: 4 For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy works; and I will rejoice in giving praise for the operations of thy hands.
Página 20 - Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust enclosed heare. Blese be ye man that spares thes stones. And curst be he that moves my bones.
Página 43 - ... and sickening for ever, and brave lives dashed away about the rattling beach like weeds for ever; and still at the helm of every lonely boat, through starless night and hopeless dawn, His hand, who spread the fisher's net over the dust of the Sidonian palaces, and gave into the fisher's hand the keys of the kingdom of heaven.
Página 91 - Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb and don't go near the water.