Between the Tides: Comprising Sketches, Tales and Poems, Including Hungry Land

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W. S. and G. Walker, printers, 1885 - 250 pages
 

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Page 191 - I suppose to be the Bible, or at least the New Testament That teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me, I should do even so to them. It teaches me, further, "to remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them." I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say, I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done—as I have always freely admitted I have done—in behalf of His despised poor, was...
Page 35 - Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 250 - I LIVE for those who love me, Whose hearts are kind and true ; For the heaven that smiles above me And awaits my spirit too ; For all human ties that bind me, For the task by God assigned me, For the bright hopes left behind me, And the good that I can do.
Page 191 - remember them that are in bonds as bound with them.' I endeavoured to act up to that instruction. I say, I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done, in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right.
Page 35 - ... it is better to bear the ills we have, than fly to others that we know not of.
Page 239 - Yes, I have been there, came from there yesterday; I was all over the place and was retracing my steps to the livery stable, when a small but viciously inclined dog ran up behind me and commenced snapping at my heels. A boy came out of...
Page 240 - I take pleasure in saying, that the once sleepy old town of Saratoga has awakened from her slumbers, and has fallen in with the march of progression, with prospects of a Railroad to be completed the present year.
Page 7 - We talk of days gone by when we were so happy and contented, when in reality were we to consult our old journals of every day life, we would discover the fact that we were just as miserable then as now.
Page 145 - Eivers and Plains that reflected her glances when first the world began. Seasons come and go, Nor heed the fate of man...
Page 134 - South of this, the North and South forks of the Platte unite and form one broad, but shallow stream, whose course we...

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