The Dial of Love: A Christmas Book for the Young |
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The Dial of Love: A Christmas Book for the Young (Classic Reprint) Mary Howitt No preview available - 2015 |
The Dial of Love: A Christmas Book for the Young - Primary Source Edition Mary Botham Howitt No preview available - 2013 |
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Alfred beautiful birds blackberries blue velvet Bolsover Brenda bright called carriage Christmas clay cloth Cock-alu colour creatures crimson CUMMING'S dancing dear delight Derbyshire door drop of water Druidical Druids Easter Monday eyes Eyres FARMER father fishing flints flowers full gilt garden glass green grind Haddon Haddon Hall heard hedge Herbert hill Jack JACK'S GRANDMOTHER Josiah Wedgewood kind lady little girl lived look Margery Daw marmot Mary Master Hollyhocks meadow Meggie merry Monsal Dale morning mother never Nicola night Pazetto pleasant pleasure poor little Hen-alie rich ring-dove river rock round Savoyard says seemed silver-spring singing sitting sleep soon spirit squirrel stones stood summer sunshine supper talk tell things Thomas Eyre THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON thought told trees valley village Volume walk ware whole wife wild woman wonderful wood woodpecker young young rascal
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Page 188 - And the simple shepherd folk, 23 (265) As if day shone out above them, With the joyful impulse woke ; Woke, and lo ! a glorious vision Filled their souls with wondering awe, And ten thousand holy angels, Thronging all the heavens, they saw. And they heard them sing, as never Skylark sang above the corn, — " Peace on earth, and endless blessing ! For the Christ ! the Christ is born ! " Sons and daughters of affliction, Join great Nature's choral voice ! Thou, the captive ; thou, the stranger ; Thou,...
Page 179 - The rich man was ill-natured, and when he heard his brother's request he looked very surly. But as Christmas is a time when even the worst people give gifts, he took a fine ham down from the chimney, where it was hanging to smoke, threw it at his brother, and bade him begone and never...
Page 106 - One heart I have, and here it is ! A little heart brimful of bliss ; Father and Mother it loves so well ! Who gave this warm heart I can tell ; This heart was given by God above, The same who gave me life and love ! THE INDIAN BIRDS.
Page 187 - LISTEN, all ye Christian people, Let no fears your souls dismay ; God's own Son, the Lord, the Saviour, He was born on Christmas day. All the earth was bound in sadness, Darkness lay upon the land, And the silence of the midnight, When the moment was at hand ; When through all the midnight darkness, Through the world's sad heart forlorn, Passed a thrill of life ecstatic ; — And the Christ ! the Christ was born...
Page 180 - On hearing this, the poor man told him all about the ham and how it was obtained. "It is lucky for you," says the old man, "that you have met with me. If you will take that ham into the land of the dwarfs, the entrance to which lies just under the roots of this tree, you can make a capital bargain with it; for the dwarfs are very fond of ham, and rarely get any. But mind what I say; you must not sell it for money, but demand for it the old hand-mill...
Page 89 - It was four o'clock in the morning, and Cock-alu clapped his wings and crowed ; then, turning to Hen-alie, he said : " Hen-alie, my little wife, I love you better than all the world : you know I do. I always told you so ! I will do anything for you ; I'll go round the world for you ; I'll travel as far as the sun for you ! You know I would ! Tell me, what shall I do for you ?
Page 180 - ... capital bargain with it; for the dwarfs are very fond of ham, and rarely get any. But mind what I say; you must not sell it for money, but demand for it the old hand-mill which stands behind the door. When you come back I'll show you how to use it.