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... Shore . ' • Thomas Campbell , " When Jordan hushed his waters still , " 1796 68 • 71 CHRISTMAS DAY . • Rev. John Keble , " Christian Year , " 1827 . · · 72 74 A LITTLE CHRISTMAS SERMON . Harriet McEwen Kimball WINTER IN THE ARCTIC ...
... Shore . ' • Thomas Campbell , " When Jordan hushed his waters still , " 1796 68 • 71 CHRISTMAS DAY . • Rev. John Keble , " Christian Year , " 1827 . · · 72 74 A LITTLE CHRISTMAS SERMON . Harriet McEwen Kimball WINTER IN THE ARCTIC ...
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... shores . Next morn we wakened with the shout Of merry voices high and clear ; And saw the teamsters drawing near , To break the drifted highways out . Down the long hill - side treading slow We saw the half - buried oxen go , Shaking ...
... shores . Next morn we wakened with the shout Of merry voices high and clear ; And saw the teamsters drawing near , To break the drifted highways out . Down the long hill - side treading slow We saw the half - buried oxen go , Shaking ...
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... A ripe sheaf bound her zone . But howling Winter fled afar To hills that prop the Polar Star ; And loves on deer - borne car to ride , With barren darkness at his side , Round the shore where loud Lofoden Whirls to death the 53.
... A ripe sheaf bound her zone . But howling Winter fled afar To hills that prop the Polar Star ; And loves on deer - borne car to ride , With barren darkness at his side , Round the shore where loud Lofoden Whirls to death the 53.
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Winter pictures. Round the shore where loud Lofoden Whirls to death the roaring whale , Round the hall where Runic Odin Howls his war - song to the gale— Save when adown the ravaged globe He travels on his native storm , Deflowering ...
Winter pictures. Round the shore where loud Lofoden Whirls to death the roaring whale , Round the hall where Runic Odin Howls his war - song to the gale— Save when adown the ravaged globe He travels on his native storm , Deflowering ...
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... shores , Where the Rhine's broad billow freezes , Or the dark - brown Danube roars . O winds of Winter ! list ye there To many a deep and dying groan ? Or start , ye demons of the midnight air , At shrieks and thunders louder than your ...
... shores , Where the Rhine's broad billow freezes , Or the dark - brown Danube roars . O winds of Winter ! list ye there To many a deep and dying groan ? Or start , ye demons of the midnight air , At shrieks and thunders louder than your ...
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angels ARCTIC CIRCLE beauty beneath bids birds blast blaze bleak bless bloom born breath bright calm cheerful chill Christ CHRISTMAS CAROLS clouds cold comes cottage dark dead deep drifted drooping E'en earth flowers Frost Spirit frozen glad glittering Glory green hail hath heart heaven heavenly hills holly housie hovering fly howl icy tower keen leafless leaves light lone guide lonely Lord loud meadow lake merry MONT VELAN morn musing naked neath nigh NORTH POLE NORTH-EAST PASSAGE o'er peace plain primeval mound rapturous song reign rich page rise roar rocks roll round rubies rich scene shepherds shine silent sing skies sleep smile snow solemn midnight song soon soul sound spring stars storm streams summer sweet tempest thee thought tidings tread trees voice warm waves weary wild wind-flower winds wintry woods
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Page 51 - Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled ! " Joyful, all ye nations, rise, Join the triumph of the skies ; With the angelic host proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem.
Page 147 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Page 69 - I'm truly sorry man's dominion, Has broken Nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor, earth-born companion, An
Page 156 - Mine was it in the fields both day and night, And by the waters, all the summer long ; And in the frosty season, when the sun Was set, and, visible for many a mile, The cottage windows through the twilight blazed, I heeded not the summons : happy time It was indeed for all of us ; for me It was a time of rapture...
Page 50 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.
Page 121 - No powdered pert, proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors Till the street rings; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake : But here the needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted...
Page 51 - Christ, by highest heaven adored, Christ the everlasting Lord. Late in time behold him come, Offspring of the Virgin's womb.
Page 85 - It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up to might, And now was queen of land and sea. No sound was heard of clashing wars; Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain: Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars Held undisturbed their ancient reign, In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago.
Page 19 - The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps, And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering. Look ! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal ; each light spray, Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven, Is studded with its trembling water-drops, That stream with rainbow radiance as they move. But round the parent stem the long low boughs Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbors hide The glassy floor.
Page 39 - Within our beds awhile we heard The wind that round the gables roared. With now and then a ruder shock. Which made our very bedsteads rock. We heard the loosened clapboards tost, The board-nails snapping in the frost; And on us, through the unplastered wall. Felt the light sifted snow-flakes fall. But sleep stole on, as sleep will do When hearts are light and life is new; Faint and more faint the murmers grew.