Pictures of Life with Pen and PencilThe Society, 1868 - 160 pages |
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Pictures of Life with Pen and Pencil (1868) Tract Society American Tract Society No preview available - 2009 |
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Age to Age amid arms asked avalanche beauty beloved sleep Bible bird blessed bosom breast breath bright Canvasback duck child Christ Christian cloud daisies Damascus dear death delight divine dread eagle earth faith father fear feet flame flowers friends garden giveth his beloved glorious glory grace hand happy hath heard heart heaven heavenly hope horses hour Jesus king little shoes live look Lord mahout Malleer merry heart Mont Blanc morning mother mountain nest never Newsboy night o'er once Pompey poor pray rest rock Saviour Scotland Sea of Galilee shines smile snake passed snow soon sorrow soul spirit star stood storm stranger stranger's heart sweet Tadmor tears tell thine thing thou hast thought thousand traveller Uncle Ben unto voice Wartburg watch wild window for thee wings wonder young
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Page 96 - Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 157 - What would we give to our beloved ? The hero's heart, to be unmoved, The poet's star-tuned harp, to sweep, The patriot's voice, to teach and rouse, The monarch's crown, to light the brows ?He giveth His beloved, sleep.
Page 133 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 25 - Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand ; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see ! she stirs ! She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms...
Page 27 - There with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea ; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea ; And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe, when the wrathful spirit of storms, Has made the top of the wave his own...
Page 26 - We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 96 - Thou too, hoar Mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene Into the depth of clouds, that veil thy breast — Thou too again, stupendous...
Page 128 - But present still, though now unseen, When brightly shines the prosperous day, Be thoughts of THEE a cloudy screen To temper the deceitful ray. And oh, when stoops on Judah's path In shade and storm the frequent night, Be THOU, long-suffering, slow to wrath, A burning and a shining light ! Rebecca's Hymn Our harps we left by Babel's...
Page 26 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 158 - And friends, dear friends, when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And round my bier ye come to weep, Let One most loving of you all Say...