Sunset, Volumes 4-5Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Company, 1900 |
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Page 217 - His hand upon your shoulder in a friendly sort o' way! It makes a man feel curious, it makes the teardrops start, An' you sort o' feel a flutter in the region of the heart: You can look up and meet his eyes; you don't know what to say When his hand is on your shoulder in a friendly sort o
Page 52 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Page 196 - Ay," replied a star, In night afar, " We '11 see what we can do. We two Will first make golden weather, Then sow down there together." Now, deep under ground Was caught the sound Out of the western sky : "And I," Spoke up a bright-eyed metal, "Will help tint every petal.
Page 28 - Than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way, I love thee all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art...
Page 196 - WHEN the rose was made, I am afraid A pretty bit of sin Slipt in ; That blush — nobody knows The story of the rose. And the lily white, A touch of blight Is on her saintly face ; A trace Of — what ? She and the rose, Their story no one knows. But Our Poppy's flame, Nay, doubt, for shame ! Smirch not her sturdy glow ; All know Our Poppy from the morn The honest thing was born. " Come," said once the sun, " I will be one To shine into the grass, To pass New life into the earth For a god's own beauty-birth.
Page 277 - Transverse Mountain Valleys," etc., in the University Chronicle for December, 1898. To discuss it here would carry us much too far afield. 2. Scenic Beauty. — Doubtless, for aggregation of striking features within a limited area, and especially for the splendor of its many waterfalls, Yosemite stands unrivaled, not only in California, but in the world. But there is a peculiar, though gentler charm, also, in the foaming rapids so characteristic of King's River and its branches.
Page 22 - You'll have to wait four hours." "I think not." "Well, maybe you know better than I do, ma'am." "Yes, sir, and maybe you know better than I do whether I . am expecting to travel on that train myself, or whether I am inquiring for a relative that's visiting at my house and wanted me to call here and ask about it and save her the trouble because she's packing up her things and expects to take that train herself, and not me, and...
Page 73 - Gainst his barred sides his speckled wings, and made A sound like distant thunder; slow the strokes At first, then fast and faster, till at length They passed into a murmur and were still. " There hast thou," said my friend, " a fitting type Of human life.
Page 17 - I have never seen a more magnificent mountain panorama. I have seen the mountains of this continent from Alaska to Mexico, and I have tramped many mountain miles in the Alps, but such...