Community English: A Book of Undertakings for Boys and GirlsMacmillan, 1921 - 266 pages |
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Page 143 - Do noble things, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song. CHARLES KINGSLEY The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. HW LONGFELLOW
Page 142 - dream — and not make dreams your master; If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the
Page 144 - NOBILITY True worth is in being, not seeming, In doing each day that goes by Some little good — not in dreaming Of great things to do by and by; For whatever men say in blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, There's nothing so royal as truth.
Page 144 - The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hillside's dew pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in his heaven — All's right with
Page 137 - concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung. SIR WALTER SCOTT : The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Page 144 - Work for some good, be it ever so slowly! Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly! Labor! All labor is noble and holy; Let thy great deed be thy prayer to thy God. The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hillside's
Page 220 - Home they brought her warrior dead; She nor swooned nor uttered cry. All her maidens, watching, said, "She must weep or she will die." ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Tell you what I like the best — 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine, — some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at no thin
Page 142 - those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the thing you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and
Page 143 - OPPORTUNITY They do me wrong who say I come no more, When once I knock and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door, And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win. MALONE
Page 138 - awe; Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums; And loyal hearts are beating high: Hats off! The flag is passing by. HENRY HOLCOMB BENNETT I