Vara: Or, The Child of Adoption |
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... gave its golden tinge , And set with gems the wavelet's fringe , Uprising as the breeze swept by ; While light , with water blended , Reflected from the arching sky The bow of promise bended ! " Vara thought of the bow that first bent ...
... gave its golden tinge , And set with gems the wavelet's fringe , Uprising as the breeze swept by ; While light , with water blended , Reflected from the arching sky The bow of promise bended ! " Vara thought of the bow that first bent ...
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... gave him strength to conquer the pleadings of his own rebellious heart . The conflict was passed ; and he answered firmly , yet sadly- " Your father and mother , Vara daughter , will always be your own father and mother ; and you will ...
... gave him strength to conquer the pleadings of his own rebellious heart . The conflict was passed ; and he answered firmly , yet sadly- " Your father and mother , Vara daughter , will always be your own father and mother ; and you will ...
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... gave vent to her passion in a frantic outcry of vexation , anger , and grief . Vara kneeled down beside her , and with words that only a child can speak to untutored sor- row , soothed her into calmness . Once it flashed across the mind ...
... gave vent to her passion in a frantic outcry of vexation , anger , and grief . Vara kneeled down beside her , and with words that only a child can speak to untutored sor- row , soothed her into calmness . Once it flashed across the mind ...
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... gave her one long , melting kiss , then ran away to join her mother , who , impatient at the long delay , had re- turned and stood near enough to witness the last part of this strange interview . As they entered the grove that shut in ...
... gave her one long , melting kiss , then ran away to join her mother , who , impatient at the long delay , had re- turned and stood near enough to witness the last part of this strange interview . As they entered the grove that shut in ...
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... gave him a wide berth . Had he not been so closely confined to the state - room of his sick wife , they would have learned that , notwithstanding his sanctimo- nious demeanor , he was a good and pure - hearted man , full of human ...
... gave him a wide berth . Had he not been so closely confined to the state - room of his sick wife , they would have learned that , notwithstanding his sanctimo- nious demeanor , he was a good and pure - hearted man , full of human ...
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Page 106 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 60 - Whatever is, is to me a matter of taste or distaste; or when once it becomes indifferent, it begins to be disrelishing. I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices — made up of likings and dislikings — the veriest thrall to sympathies, apathies, antipathies.
Page 9 - And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky.
Page 73 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 174 - They loved, but their story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold; They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers may come; They joyed, but the voice of their gladness is dumb.
Page 195 - Does pure religion charm thee Far more than aught below ? Would'st thou that she should arm thee Against the hour of woe ? Think not she dwelleth only In temples built for prayer ; For home itself is lonely, Unless her smiles be there...
Page 9 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Page 172 - O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted.
Page 174 - I had in infancy upon the bosom of my mother. Alas ! how little do we appreciate a mother's tenderness while living ! How heedless are we in youth of all her anxieties and kindness ! But when she is dead and gone, when the cares and coldness of the world come withering to our hearts...
Page 174 - For we are the same things our fathers have been; We see the same sights that our fathers have seen. We drink the same stream, and we feel the same sun, And run the same course that our fathers have run.