The New Year's Gift and Juvenile Souvenir

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Page 46 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 42 - ... clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, while the laborer is fed with the crumbs which fall from the table of the rich.
Page 71 - Stir up the fire, then," said David. " Nay," rejoined the wife, "coals are raised." " Lord help us ! " again sighed David, and two of the children began coughing. " Those children's coughs are no better," remarked the father, somewhat impatiently.
Page 53 - I have done worse ; I have seen an evil spirit — I fear to look steadfastly at it, lest it wither me. Search into your secret heart, Paul, I pray; it will, perhaps, be a hard task ; but it is a needful one, that you may pluck thence the unholy and sinful thoughts, which you have suffered to grow up in its hidden recesses, and to destroy its uprightness. Come hither...
Page 70 - and I hope nobody will." " They will not now," said the younger David, "for it is three months since we found it." " We might sell it for half-a-crown," said the father. Mary looked frightened, and held the squirrel to her bosom. "Joey's feet are very bad," remarked the mother. " And that doctor's bill has never been paid," said the father, " seventeen shillings and sixpence.
Page 196 - ... it into his head that he, too, would attend the meeting : it was famous sport for him to run up and about the wild hollows and deep lanes and water-courses that lay between his home and the meeting-house ; and such an amusement, once a week, would not have been denied to him, had he been contented to stay quietly in the stable with the horses, or lie outside the door till his master was re'ady to return home. But Pry had a will of his own, and he chose to lie at his master's feet in summer, and...
Page 78 - I showed it the woods, so green and fair ; I bade it to list to the breezy air, To the coo of the doves, so wild and low, But it clung to my hand and would not go. Ay, then, let the little foot-page so gay, Mimic his master as best he may ; Let the Mistress Ann be as grave as an owl, And the henchman put on his darkest scowl : I like far better than all the three The true little Dove that serveth me ; That is always merry and kind and good, And hath left for me its own greenwood ! ANOTHER DAY IN...
Page 176 - I've nothing left at all, And my garden is spoiled, and I've had such a dreadful fall ! I wish I had been up this morning as early as the sun, And then I should have gone to Canonley, nor have had all this mischief done ! I'm sure it's quite enough to make me cry for a year — Let's go into the house, Zedekiah ; what's the use of sitting here ? THE YOUNG MOURNER.
Page 46 - WHENE'ER I take my walks abroad, How many poor I see ! What shall I render to my God For all his gifts to me...
Page 67 - IT was in the middle of winter, on the night of the twenty-third of January, when the weather was miserably cold ; it neither decidedly froze, nor yet did it thaw ; but between the two it was cold and damp, and penetrated to the very bone, even of those who sat in carpeted rooms before large fires, and were warmly clad. It was on this evening that the seven little children of David Baird, the weaver, stood huddled together in their small room, beside a small fire, which was burning comfortlessly....

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