The Gentleman from EverywhereThe author, 1902 - 318 pages |
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Page 7
... - well financially , had loaned his best clothes , watch and pocketbook to a friend to enable him to call on his best girl in captivating style , and said 7 Launching of My Life Boat My First Voyage Near to Nature's Heart PAGE.
... - well financially , had loaned his best clothes , watch and pocketbook to a friend to enable him to call on his best girl in captivating style , and said 7 Launching of My Life Boat My First Voyage Near to Nature's Heart PAGE.
Page 37
... watch- ing through a crevice cut in the side of the barn , my father who made the air resound with threats of what he would do if I did not at once return to my education mill . Here I was often joined by a congenial spirit , and we ...
... watch- ing through a crevice cut in the side of the barn , my father who made the air resound with threats of what he would do if I did not at once return to my education mill . Here I was often joined by a congenial spirit , and we ...
Page 38
... watch the delicate traceries of the water gardens through which the mild - eyed stickle - backs sailed serenely , having implicit con- fidence in the protection of their sharp spinacles , presenting to all enemies an impervious array of ...
... watch the delicate traceries of the water gardens through which the mild - eyed stickle - backs sailed serenely , having implicit con- fidence in the protection of their sharp spinacles , presenting to all enemies an impervious array of ...
Page 60
... watch the first flight of Psyche , the butterfly , so emblematic of the soaring of the immortal soul from the body dead . The wood duck seemed to smile upon me as of old as she sailed gracefully into the little coves in my river , the ...
... watch the first flight of Psyche , the butterfly , so emblematic of the soaring of the immortal soul from the body dead . The wood duck seemed to smile upon me as of old as she sailed gracefully into the little coves in my river , the ...
Page 62
... watch him , commenced to snore like a fog horn , nearly drowning the speaker's voice . The reverend stopped , and thinking innocently , that some animal was ma- king the disturbance , said : " Will the sexton please put that dog out ...
... watch him , commenced to snore like a fog horn , nearly drowning the speaker's voice . The reverend stopped , and thinking innocently , that some animal was ma- king the disturbance , said : " Will the sexton please put that dog out ...
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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...