In the golden days, by Edna Lyall, Volume 31885 |
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Page 1 - Against the threats Of malice or of sorcery, or that power Which erring men call Chance, this I hold firm: Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea, even that which Mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.
Page 250 - Ask me why I send to you This primrose all bepearled with dew : I straight will whisper in your ears, The sweets of love are washed with tears. Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow, green, and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break ; I must tell you, these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover.
Page 146 - ... exceeding merry. These great men spent the rest of the afternoon, till eleven at night, in drinking healths, taking tobacco, and talking much beneath the gravity of Judges, who had but a day or two before condemned Mr.
Page 51 - Not in the evening's eyes, When they red with weeping are For the Sun that dies, Sits Sorrow with a face so fair. Nowhere but here did ever meet Sweetness so sad, sadness so sweet.
Page 50 - Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
Page 156 - Short life, in truth, this thing doth try, "Wherefore, come, death, and let me die. Come, gentle death, the ebb of care; The ebb of care the flood of life ; The flood of life, the joyful fare; The joyful fare, the end of strife— The end of strife that thing wish I, Wherefore, come, death and let me die.
Page 233 - ASTROPHEL with STELLA sweet, Did for mutual comfort meet ; Both within themselves oppressed, But each in the other blessed. Him great harms had taught much care; Her fair neck a foul yoke bare : But her sight his cares did banish, In his sight her yoke did vanish. Wept they had, alas the while, But now tears themselves did smile; While their eyes by love directed, Interchangeably reflected.
Page 125 - I know that my Redeemer lives, and, as he hath in a great measure upheld me in the day of my calamity, hope that he will still uphold me by his spirit in this last moment, and, giving .me grace to glorify him in my death, receive me into the glory prepared for those that fear him, when my body shall be dissolved — Amen.
Page 263 - Like the other foot obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And me to end where I begun.