The Gentleman from EverywhereThe author, 1902 - 318 pages |
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... passed the long weeks of that Arctic winter until the frogs in the neighboring swamp crying : " Knee deep , knee deep , " and " better go round , better go round , " proclaimed the season of freshets when the vast plain below us was ...
... passed the long weeks of that Arctic winter until the frogs in the neighboring swamp crying : " Knee deep , knee deep , " and " better go round , better go round , " proclaimed the season of freshets when the vast plain below us was ...
Page 59
... passed on to the higher life , and my young ones were scat- tered to the four winds of heaven in search of that happiness and wealth which is seldom found beneath the stars . I reached the old home under the hill , de- lighted to see ...
... passed on to the higher life , and my young ones were scat- tered to the four winds of heaven in search of that happiness and wealth which is seldom found beneath the stars . I reached the old home under the hill , de- lighted to see ...
Page 66
... and the death - angel passed close to our doors . My eldest brother , while at work in the hayfield , was smitten by the sun , causing a mental aberration which made him a wanderer upon the 66 THE GENTLEMAN FROM EVERYWHERE .
... and the death - angel passed close to our doors . My eldest brother , while at work in the hayfield , was smitten by the sun , causing a mental aberration which made him a wanderer upon the 66 THE GENTLEMAN FROM EVERYWHERE .
Page 76
... passed me , and hasted to his walnuts and his wine . The good president , of blessed memory , had another pressing engagement , as I well knew , when I called for his examination , he asked for but little , was too preoccupied to hear ...
... passed me , and hasted to his walnuts and his wine . The good president , of blessed memory , had another pressing engagement , as I well knew , when I called for his examination , he asked for but little , was too preoccupied to hear ...
Page 101
... passed away , the new principal said : " I feel sure that the pleasant outward appear- ance of my family here is an expression of the inward goodness and honor of you all , and I am . confident that the perpetrator of this disagree ...
... passed away , the new principal said : " I feel sure that the pleasant outward appear- ance of my family here is an expression of the inward goodness and honor of you all , and I am . confident that the perpetrator of this disagree ...
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Page 234 - O Land ! For all the broken-hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted, Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great Departed, Into the Silent Land ;
Page 252 - Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea. I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For, lo! my own shall come to me. I stay my haste, I make delays. For what avails this eager pace? I stand amid the eternal ways And what is mine shall know my face. Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me; No wind can drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny. What...
Page 149 - That all the jarring notes of life Seem blending in a psalm, And all the angles of its strife Slow rounding into calm. And so the shadows fall apart, And so the west winds play ; And all the windows of my heart I open to the day.
Page 133 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portals we call death.
Page 261 - This would be an adaptation to actual business of the spiritual truth that " to him that hath shall be given ; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he seemeth to have.
Page 160 - The word Adam is from the Hebrew adamah, signifying the red color of the ground, dust, nothingness. Divide the name Adam into two syllables, and it reads, a dam, or obstruction. This suggests the thought of something fluid, of mortal mind in solution. It further suggests the thought ofthat "darkness . . . upon the face of the deep...
Page 149 - Enough that blessings undeserved Have marked my erring track ; That wheresoe'er my feet have swerved, His chastening turned me back ; That more and more a providence Of love is understood, Making the springs of time and sense Sweet with eternal good...
Page 141 - I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn ; But still the sun shines round me : the evening bird sings on, And I again am soothed, and, beside the ancient gate, In this soft evening sunlight, I calmly stand and wait.
Page 137 - I know that each sinful action, As sure as the night brings shade , Is somewhere, sometime punished, Tho' the hour be long delayed. I know that the soul is aided Sometimes by the heart's unrest, And to grow means often to suffer But whatever is - is best.
Page 141 - A boat at midnight sent alone To drift upon the moonless sea, A lute, whose leading chord is gone, A wounded bird, that hath but one Imperfect wing to soar upon, Are like what I am, without thee...