The Wings of TimeFrederick A. Stokes Company, 1921 - 323 pages |
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Page 133 - Beyond the path of the outmost sun, through utter darkness hurled, Further than ever comet flared or vagrant star-dust swirled, Sit such as fought and sailed and ruled and loved and made our world.
Page 256 - He trod the ling like a buck in spring, and he looked like a lance in rest. "Now here is thy master...
Page 133 - Sit such as fought and sailed and ruled and loved and made our world. They are purged of pride because they died; they know the worth of their bays; They sit at wine with the Maidens Nine, and the Gods of the Elder Days — It is their will to seme or be still as fitteth our Father's praise.
Page 108 - When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it — lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew!
Page 166 - But Mary O'Neill isn't for leaving her little one to go into any convent. 'Deed no, ma'am! There would be no rest on her if she did. I 'ma mother myself and I know what she'd be feeling. You might put the black hood on her head, but Nature's a wonderful powerful thing, and she'd never go to bed at night or get up in the morning without thinking of her baby. 'Where's she now?' she'd be asking herself. 'What's happening to my motherless child?
Page 23 - Thales of Miletus, Pittacus of Mitylene, Periander of Corinth, Cleobulus of Lindus, Chilo of Sparta and Bias of Priene. And the eighth is not Greek but American, and not a Wise Man but an Infant Phenomenon. And its name is Sara Hull Dattam!