Snatches of Song: With Verses of Lighter and More Sober Moods

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Times-Mirror Print. and Bind. House, 1921 - 215 páginas
 

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Página 140 - For every use That men require, in reason, of a fire I do commend this wood. But know you that, Beyond the uses here enumerate, There's magic in it ? Wonders, like to which The sorcerers of the East did never work, Shall it perform for you. The time is come When to yourself you take the heart's best choice, An honored wife. And you have chosen well; For she, not lacking in the gentle grace That Nature but bestows on womankind, Has yet the subtler charm that is vouchsafed To those alone of true and...
Página 46 - To charm away thy care. And Barbara, blessed hand-maiden, Stays but for thy royal command, And the cloud that she sends is rain-laden To beautify all the land. Francisco, the friar of Grey Orders, His benison sends from afar, And the saints that dwell over the borders Most faithful of servitors are. Diego contributes his portion To make thy enjoyment complete; And Buenaventura, good fortune, Doth ever repose at thy feet. Bernardino, the monk of the mountains, Makes humble obeisance as well, And the...
Página 140 - ... wagon clattering down the rugged way, And I have brought my offering, as the rest, To grace your wedding feast. 1886.] Doubt not, my friend, That you shall find the fuel sound and good, Quick to the spark and ready in the blaze, To boil the pot and make the kettle sing. Tis likewise fairly suited to the grate (Now the long evenings are a little cool), Yielding its store of sunshine to the roum. For every use That men require, in reason, of a fire I do commend this wood. But know you that, Beyond...
Página 139 - Accept my offering — a farmer's load — ; The gnarled roots of mesquite and of sage, And boles of mountain oak, torn from the soil With many a blow of mattock and of axe. Such uncouth cordwood is in vogue with us Who dwell upon the mountain side, where erst The scrubby chapperal was all the growth That Nature, in a rugged spirit, gave. And so, in clearing off my foothills...
Página 140 - ... enumerate, There's magic in it ? Wonders, like to which The sorcerers of the East did never work, Shall it perform for you. The time is come When to yourself you take the heart's best choice, An honored wife. And you have chosen well; For she, not lacking in the gentle grace That Nature but bestows on womankind, Has yet the subtler charm that is vouchsafed To those alone of true and generous heart. Ensconsed in gown and slippers, sit you down, (Your love beside you), and this magic blaze Shall...
Página 47 - Where the sun shincth ever benignant, And where Nature is all but divine; Where the bee stores its crystalline treasure, The mockingbird pipes the day long.
Página 47 - Bernardino, the monk of the mountains, Makes humble obeisance as well, And the patron of rivers and fountains Hath come to thy valley to dwell. And I doubt not, fair Queen, if another — Saint Benedict— dwelt in this land, Unable his passion to smother, He'd proffer his heart and his hand. O Queen ! I bow down before thee ' Allegiance unfailing to prove ; 'Midst the...
Página 3 - OF SONG WITH VERSES OF LIGHTER AND MORE SOBER MOODS BY WILLIAM ANDREW SPALDING Author of My Vagabonds; The Orange : Its Culture in California SOUVENIR EDITION Copyrighted.

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