Elementary Inductive Geography

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Potter & Putnam Company, 1900 - 228 páginas

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Página 7 - The wonderful air is over me, And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree; It walks on the water, and whirls the mills, And talks to itself on the tops of the hills.
Página 8 - Ah! you are so great, and I am so small, I tremble to think of you, World, at all; And yet, when I said my prayers to-day, A whisper inside me seemed to say, "You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!
Página 8 - ... flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles? Ah! you are so great, and I am so small, I tremble to think of you, World, at all; And yet, when I said my prayers to-day, A whisper inside me seemed to say, " You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot : You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!
Página 91 - THE SEA. I am the Sea. I hold the land As one holds an apple in his hand, Hold it fast with sleepless eyes, Watching the continents sink and rise. Out of my bosom the mountains grow, Back to its depths they crumble slow ; The earth is a helpless child to me. I am the Sea I I am the Sea.
Página 91 - Granite to me is potter's clay: Under the touch of my careless waves It rises in turrets and sinks in caves; The iron cliffs that edge the land I grind to pebbles, and sift to sand, And beach-grass bloweth and children play In what were the rocks of yesterday; It is but a moment of sport to me — I am the Sea! I am the Sea. In my bosom deep Wealth and Wonder and Beauty sleep; Wealth and Wonder and Beauty rise In changing splendor of sunset skies, And comfort the earth with rains and snows Till waves...
Página 216 - Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Buffalo, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, New Orleans, Detroit, Milwaukee,' Washington, Newark, Jersey City, Louisville, and Minneapolis — embracing altogether a populution of 11,971,000 persons.
Página 216 - San Francisco, Cal. Savannah, Ga. Schenectady, NY Scranton, Pa. Seattle, Wash. Sioux City, Iowa Somerville, Mass.
Página 91 - I am the Sea. The earth I sway; Granite to me is potter's clay; Under the touch of my careless waves It rises in turrets and sinks in caves; The iron cliffs that edge the land I grind to pebbles and sift to sand, And beach-grass bloweth and children play In what were the rocks of yesterday. It is but a moment of sport to me. I am the Sea ! I am the Sea. In my bosom deep Wealth and Wonder and Beauty sleep; Wealth and Wonder and Beauty rise In changing splendor of sunset skies.
Página 216 - Terre Haute, Ind. Toledo, Ohio Topeka, Kan. Trenton, NJ Troy, NY Utica, NY Washington, DC...

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