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Page 247 - I behold in thee An image of Him who died on the tree; Thou also hast had thy crown of thorns, Thou also hast had the world's buffets and scorns, And to thy life were not denied The wounds in the hands and feet and side: Mild Mary's Son, acknowledge me; Behold, through him, I give to Thee...
Page 41 - She scattered them to the east, to the west, to the north, to the south.
Page 247 - Lo, it is I, be not afraid In many climes, without avail, Thou hast spent thy life for the Holy Grail; Behold, it is here, — this cup which thou Didst fill at the streamlet for me but now; This crust is my body broken for thee; This water his blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need...
Page 247 - Clung round his gracious knee, And a poor hunted slave looked up and smiled To bless the smile that set him free; New miracles I saw his presence do, — No more I knew the hovel bare and poor, The gathered chips into a woodpile grew, The broken morsel swelled to goodly store ; I knelt and wept : my Christ no more I seek, His throne is with the outcast and the weak.
Page 148 - I shot the current through all the fences and struck the whole host dead in their tracks! There was a groan you could hear\ It voiced the death-pang of eleven thousand men.
Page 113 - O God, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that Thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them.
Page 59 - Not live while English songs are sung Wherever blows the wind, And England's laws and England's tongue Enfranchise half mankind ! So long as in Pacific main, Or on Atlantic strand, Our kin transmit the parent strain, And love the...
Page 112 - Naturally enough, the idea occurred to me: If the indentations on paper could be made to give forth again the click of the instrument, why could not the vibrations of a diaphragm be recorded and similarly reproduced ? I rigged up an instrument hastily, and pulled a strip of paper through it, at the same time shouting, 'Hallo !' Then the paper was pulled through again, my friend Batchelor and I listening breathlessly.
Page 368 - Heine, once eloquently stated the position that the author finds himself in with respect to the concurring opinion — "we do not take possession of our ideas, but are possessed by them. They master us and force us into the arena, where, like gladiators, we must fight for them.
Page 70 - Bryden. — KLOOF AND KAROO : Sport, Legend, and Natural History in Cape Colony, with a notice of the Game Birds, and of the present distribution of the Antelopes and Larger Game. By HA BRYDEN. With 17 full-page Illustrations.