Odd Fellows' Literary Casket, Volumes 1-2Tidball & Turner, 1854 - American literature |
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... side the ocean . Let me see where my boy is laid , before I go home to my people ! " * The picture here referred to is a beautiful engraving , illustrative of the follow- ing touching story , which appeared in the " Odd Fellows ...
... side the ocean . Let me see where my boy is laid , before I go home to my people ! " * The picture here referred to is a beautiful engraving , illustrative of the follow- ing touching story , which appeared in the " Odd Fellows ...
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... side the grave . Yet they parted in hope , and with many a kindly interchange of good wishes , Annie found herself alone , waiting until her husband's duties should be at an end . James found opportunity now and then to speak a single ...
... side the grave . Yet they parted in hope , and with many a kindly interchange of good wishes , Annie found herself alone , waiting until her husband's duties should be at an end . James found opportunity now and then to speak a single ...
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... side the American ship to report the occurrence , adding that the man was too much exhausted to be moved then , but that he should be sent back in the morning . Mr. Morris waited until ten o'clock , when he sent a boat alongside of the ...
... side the American ship to report the occurrence , adding that the man was too much exhausted to be moved then , but that he should be sent back in the morning . Mr. Morris waited until ten o'clock , when he sent a boat alongside of the ...
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... side by side beneath the eternal waters ; and the modern ship that brings freight from Alexandria , sails in its whole course over buried nations . It may be the corruption of the dead that now adds brightness to the phos- phorescence ...
... side by side beneath the eternal waters ; and the modern ship that brings freight from Alexandria , sails in its whole course over buried nations . It may be the corruption of the dead that now adds brightness to the phos- phorescence ...
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... side of Jordan to the country of Gad and Gilead . Saul and Jonathan did their utmost to inspire the trembling hearts of the people with courage and hope . The aged prophet Samuel had sent a message from Ramah to the king , informing him ...
... side of Jordan to the country of Gad and Gilead . Saul and Jonathan did their utmost to inspire the trembling hearts of the people with courage and hope . The aged prophet Samuel had sent a message from Ramah to the king , informing him ...
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Page 92 - And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ; Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! And this is in the night.
Page 144 - After laying down my pen I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 31 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
Page 92 - And this is in the night : — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee...
Page 144 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting...
Page 46 - There is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside...
Page 138 - Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Page 196 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 43 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 116 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.