Heroes of PeaceHarper & brothers, 1915 - 118 pàgines |
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Pàgina 118 - I HEARD the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good- will to men ! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good-will to men...
Pàgina 118 - Of peace on earth, good-will to men ! And in despair I bowed my head ; ' ' There is no peace on earth, " I said ; " For hate is strong. And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men...
Pàgina 3 - OF Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day's renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of Denmark's crown, And her arms along the deep proudly shone; By each gun the lighted brand In a bold determined hand, And the Prince of all the land Led them on.
Pàgina 54 - WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave...
Pàgina 54 - Is broken by laughs and light echoes of feet From the cool, shining walks where the young people meet. — Or at morn, when the magic of daylight awakes A new wonder each minute, as slowly it breaks, Hills, cupolas, fountains, called forth every one Out of darkness, as if but just born of the Sun.
Pàgina 106 - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
Pàgina 54 - With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave,* Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave ? Oh ! to see it at sunset, — when warm o'er the lake Its splendour at parting a summer eve throws, Like a bride, full of blushes, when lingering to take A last look of her mirror at night ere she goes...
Pàgina 87 - THERE'S high and low, there's rich and poor, There's trades and crafts eneuch, man ; But, east and west, his trade's the best That kens to guide the pleugh, man. Then, come weel speed my pleughman lad, And hey my merry pleughman : Of a...
Pàgina 86 - Circumstances may yet arise to give a value to my recent labours, and my name may be remembered by after generations in Australia, as the first who tried to penetrate to its centre. If I failed in that great object, I have one consolation in the retrospect of my past services. My path...
Pàgina 97 - Father Gilpin, I acknowledge you are fitter to be bishop of Durham, than myself to be parson of this church of yours ; I ask forgiveness for errors past ; forgive me, father.