Literature Reader, Volume 6California state printing office, 1916 - Children's literature |
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... thou hast done to me , so will I do to thee . Call on me in the hour of need , and try if the Immortals can forget . " 24. And when Jason looked up , she rose from off the earth , like a pillar of tall white cloud , and floated away ...
... thou hast done to me , so will I do to thee . Call on me in the hour of need , and try if the Immortals can forget . " 24. And when Jason looked up , she rose from off the earth , like a pillar of tall white cloud , and floated away ...
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... Thou didst strike me ! " and another , " Thou art Jason ; thou shalt die ! " So fury seized those earth - born phantoms , and each turned his hand against the rest ; and they fought and were never weary , till they all lay dead upon the ...
... Thou didst strike me ! " and another , " Thou art Jason ; thou shalt die ! " So fury seized those earth - born phantoms , and each turned his hand against the rest ; and they fought and were never weary , till they all lay dead upon the ...
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... thou left us in our misery , to die here among unknown seas ? It is hard to lose the honor which we have won with such toil and danger , and hard never to see Hellas again , and the pleasant bay of Pagasai . " 7. Then out and spoke the ...
... thou left us in our misery , to die here among unknown seas ? It is hard to lose the honor which we have won with such toil and danger , and hard never to see Hellas again , and the pleasant bay of Pagasai . " 7. Then out and spoke the ...
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... thou the crimson sheen , As warm , we'll say , is the russet grey , As gay the forest - green . " And , Richard , if ... thou wert christen'd man ; For cross or sign thou wilt not fly , For mutter'd word or ban . " Lay on him the curse ...
... thou the crimson sheen , As warm , we'll say , is the russet grey , As gay the forest - green . " And , Richard , if ... thou wert christen'd man ; For cross or sign thou wilt not fly , For mutter'd word or ban . " Lay on him the curse ...
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... thou liest , thou bold of mood ! It cleaves unto his hand , о The stain of thine own kindly blood , The blood of Ethert Brand . " Then forward stepp'd she , Alice Brand , And made the holy sign , - " And if there's blood on Richard's ...
... thou liest , thou bold of mood ! It cleaves unto his hand , о The stain of thine own kindly blood , The blood of Ethert Brand . " Then forward stepp'd she , Alice Brand , And made the holy sign , - " And if there's blood on Richard's ...
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Page 146 - Never gave the enraptured air) There was a rustling that seemed like a bustling Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling, Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, Little hands clapping, and little tongues chattering; And, like fowls in a farm-yard when barley is scattering, Out came the children running. All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting...
Page 110 - The stout mate thought of home; a spray Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. "What shall I say, brave Adm'r'l, say, If we sight naught but seas at dawn?" "Why, you shall say, at break of day: 'Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
Page 350 - OFT I had heard of Lucy Gray : And, when I crossed the wild, I chanced to see at break of day The solitary Child. No mate, no comrade Lucy knew ; She dwelt on a wide moor, — The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door ! You yet may spy the fawn at play, The hare upon the green ; But the sweet face of Lucy Gray Will never more be seen. " To-night will be a stormy night — You to the town must go ; And take a lantern, Child, to light Your mother through the snow.
Page 371 - So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God : and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Page 333 - That rises after the sun goes down. It was one by the village clock When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
Page 330 - and with muffled oar Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the moon rose over the bay, Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war ; A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar, And a huge black hulk, that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide.
Page 335 - ... steel-tipped, ordered lines. Hats off! The colors before us fly; But more than the flag is passing by.
Page 119 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free ! The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam; And the rocking pines of the forest roared — This was their welcome home...
Page 360 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one!
Page 371 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him ; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.