The Harvard Monthly, Volumes 13-14

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Students of Harvard College, 1891
 

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Page 191 - When it was grown to dark midnight, And all were fast asleep, In came Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet.
Page 63 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Page 199 - Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Page 34 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Page 63 - The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale; The busy bee her honey now she mings ; Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays; and yet my sorrow springs.
Page 194 - TWAS at the silent, solemn hour, When night and morning meet; In glided Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. Her face was like an April morn, Clad in a wintry cloud; And clay-cold was her lily hand, That held her sable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear, When youth and years are flown : Such is the robe that kings must wear, When death has reft their crown.
Page 45 - Col man, in his funeral lecture, states this doctrine as specifically as I have found it stated : " To walk with God means, in all the parts and instances of a sober, righteous and godly Life ; and constancy therein all our days. We walk with God in a sincere, universal and persevering Obedience to the written Word and re•vealed Law of God : and blessed are the undefiled in the way, that walk in the Law t>f the Lord.
Page 147 - A lady's here, by a dark steed brought, Sister Helen, So darkly clad, I saw her not." "See her now or never see aught, Little brother!" (O Mother, Mary Mother, What more to see, between Hell and Heaven?) "Her hood falls back, and the moon shines fair, Sister Helen, On the Lady of Ewern's golden hair.
Page 63 - Norfolk sprung thee, Lambeth holds thee dead ; Clere, of the Count of Cleremont, thou hight ; Within the womb of Ormond's race thou bred, And saw'st thy cousin
Page 55 - Oh, life would be quite tolerable, after all, if only we could be rid of the confounded duns that keep on pestering us, in our poverty, with the claim of the ideal.

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