Sweet Home: Or, Friendship's Golden Altar |
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... light Falls like a gleam of holiness Upon my heart to - night . " It is well often to go home , that the free innocence of childhood may be reflected from the hallowed scenes of early days upon our souls , which have been checkered with ...
... light Falls like a gleam of holiness Upon my heart to - night . " It is well often to go home , that the free innocence of childhood may be reflected from the hallowed scenes of early days upon our souls , which have been checkered with ...
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... light , As if its shrine were there ; But O , that patriarch's aspect shone With something lovelier far - A radiance , all the spirit's own , Caught not from sun or star . Some word of life e'en then had met His calm , benignant eye ...
... light , As if its shrine were there ; But O , that patriarch's aspect shone With something lovelier far - A radiance , all the spirit's own , Caught not from sun or star . Some word of life e'en then had met His calm , benignant eye ...
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... light , circling waves ; but the waters will soon run smooth again , and leave no sign that she has been . How different the result when limiting her efforts to the powers conferred and the materials given her to work with ! In the home ...
... light , circling waves ; but the waters will soon run smooth again , and leave no sign that she has been . How different the result when limiting her efforts to the powers conferred and the materials given her to work with ! In the home ...
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... light which pervaded the room on his entrance was only the sunshine from her own unselfish spirit thrown back upon her with added brightness ! Yet it was even so . The loving kiss on her forehead , how it warmed even to her heart ! And ...
... light which pervaded the room on his entrance was only the sunshine from her own unselfish spirit thrown back upon her with added brightness ! Yet it was even so . The loving kiss on her forehead , how it warmed even to her heart ! And ...
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... ! And so with them the seasons passed . If trials came , as come they will to all , they bore the burden cheerfully ; if clouds obscured the light around O them , they drew closer to the hearth fire 28 THE TWO HOMES .
... ! And so with them the seasons passed . If trials came , as come they will to all , they bore the burden cheerfully ; if clouds obscured the light around O them , they drew closer to the hearth fire 28 THE TWO HOMES .
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Page 34 - And Deering's Woods are fresh and fair, And with joy that is almost pain My heart goes back to wander there, And among the dreams of the days that were I find my lost youth again. And the strange and beautiful song, The groves are repeating it still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts
Page 107 - SOME murmur when their sky is clear And wholly bright to view, If one small speck of dark appear In their great heaven of blue ; And some with thankful love are filled, If but one streak of light, One ray of God's good mercy, gild The darkness of their night.
Page 31 - YOUTH. OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 33 - The drum-beat repeated o'er and o'er, And the bugle wild and shrill. And the music of that old song Throbs in my memory still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 207 - Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. To spread large bounties though we wish in vain, Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain...
Page 35 - A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.' And Deering's Woods are fresh and fair, And with joy that is almost pain My heart goes back to wander there, And among the dreams of the days that were, I find my lost youth again. And the strange and beautiful song, The groves are repeating it still: 'A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 209 - Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
Page 192 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 32 - And the burden of that old song, It murmurs and whispers still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 111 - It is by the promulgation of sound morals in the community, and more especially by the training and instruction of the young, that woman performs her part towards the preservation of a free government It is...