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Adirondack Agordo Ampersand Ampezzo angler banks beautiful beside birds blue boat called camp canoe cast catch clear colour Cortina Dachstein dancing dark deep delight Dolomites eyes falls Favonius feet Ferdinand fire fish flies floating flowers flows foam forest gray grayling green Gross-Venediger guides Hallstatt head heart heather hills hook hour island Izaak Walton lake Lake Misurina land leaped Lienz light Linn of Dee little river loch logs look meadows Metapedia miles morning mountains never night Nuvolau ouananiche paddle passed peak pleasant pool portage pounds Princess of Thule rapids Raquette River Ristigouche road rocks rolled roof salmon Saranac Saranac River seemed shore side singing sloping spring steep stone stream summer swift tent thing tiny Traun trees trout valley veery walk wild wilderness woods
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Page 214 - Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow'd earth - rich apple-blossom'd earth! Smile, for your lover comes.
Page 192 - The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Page 15 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 113 - We beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us with favour, folk of many families and nations gathered together in the peace of this roof, weak men and women subsisting under the covert of Thy patience.
Page 66 - I may have the best : we'll rejoice with my brother Peter and his friend, tell tales, or sing ballads, or make a catch, or find some harmless sport to content us, and pass away a little time without offence to God or man.
Page 5 - Tis not a proud desire of mine; I ask for nothing superfine; No heavy weight, no salmon great, To break the record — or my line: Only an idle little stream, Whose amber waters softly gleam, Where I may wade, through woodland shade, And cast the fly, and loaf, and dream...
Page 264 - THE bed was made, the room was fit, By punctual eve the stars were lit; The air was still, the water ran, No need was there for maid or man, When we put up, my ass and I, At God's green caravanserai.
Page 11 - ... my feet turn not to a tree, but to the bank of a river; for there the musings of solitude find a friendly accompaniment, and human intercourse is purified and sweetened by the flowing, murmuring water. It is by a river that I would choose to make love, and to revive old friendships, and to play with the children, and to confess my faults, and to escape from vain, selfish desires, and to cleanse my mind from all the false and foolish things that mar the joy and peace of living. Like David's hart,...
Page 29 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling...
Page 112 - There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully, and cheerfully as we can.