Uncle Tom's pictorial keepsakeTom (uncle, pseud) 1852 |
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... field of Nature , while I describe to you the many wonders of Creation . The sweet smelling flowers , the beautiful singing birds , and the noble animals , each and all bearing witness to the goodness of the Great God who made the ...
... field of Nature , while I describe to you the many wonders of Creation . The sweet smelling flowers , the beautiful singing birds , and the noble animals , each and all bearing witness to the goodness of the Great God who made the ...
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... field of Nature , while I describe to you the many wonders of Creation . The sweet smelling flowers , the beautiful singing birds , and the noble animals , each and all bearing witness to the goodness of the Great God who made the ...
... field of Nature , while I describe to you the many wonders of Creation . The sweet smelling flowers , the beautiful singing birds , and the noble animals , each and all bearing witness to the goodness of the Great God who made the ...
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... field , and lo , my sheaf arose , and also stood upright ; and behold , your sheaves stood round about , and made obeisance to my sheaf . " His brethren hated him the more for his dream , and said " shalt thou indeed reign over us ...
... field , and lo , my sheaf arose , and also stood upright ; and behold , your sheaves stood round about , and made obeisance to my sheaf . " His brethren hated him the more for his dream , and said " shalt thou indeed reign over us ...
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... field of them is a beautiful sight . When ripe , their colour is of a bright yellow , and in parts streaked with red when exposed to the sun . The top is at first dark - green , but afterwards becomes a brownish yellow . From the centre ...
... field of them is a beautiful sight . When ripe , their colour is of a bright yellow , and in parts streaked with red when exposed to the sun . The top is at first dark - green , but afterwards becomes a brownish yellow . From the centre ...
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... fields and the woods are green , The breezes soft , and the sky serene , Happy art thou , O bird of morn ! Greeting the beam o'er the far hills borne . O for a wing and a voice like thine , To revel and sing in the morning shine ! O for ...
... fields and the woods are green , The breezes soft , and the sky serene , Happy art thou , O bird of morn ! Greeting the beam o'er the far hills borne . O for a wing and a voice like thine , To revel and sing in the morning shine ! O for ...
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Page 308 - THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. The prouder beauties of the field In gay but quick succession shine, Race after race their honours yield, They flourish and decline. But this small flower, to Nature dear, While moons and stars their courses run, Wreathes the whole circle of the year, Companion of the Sun.
Page 57 - The seven good kine are seven years: and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
Page 55 - And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
Page 48 - And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree.
Page 142 - Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The...
Page 204 - THE VIOLET. DOWN in a green and shady bed, A modest violet grew, Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view.
Page 58 - And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
Page 58 - Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land...
Page 205 - I am coming, I am coming! Hark! the little bee is humming; See! the lark is soaring high In the bright and sunny sky; And the gnats are on the wing, Wheeling round in airy ring.
Page 59 - And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.