HawaiiC.A. Murdock & Company, 1893 - 254 páginas |
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... Nature in her every mood , to stay and scorn departure ! Enfin , the ills , and evils , and enemies of life - a pack of wolves - are all there ; and if the fuel , the fagots be scanty , the fire is not strong enough to make them retreat ...
... Nature in her every mood , to stay and scorn departure ! Enfin , the ills , and evils , and enemies of life - a pack of wolves - are all there ; and if the fuel , the fagots be scanty , the fire is not strong enough to make them retreat ...
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... nature will be in an uproar . But " presto , change ! " and lo ! the clouds are parted , and swift the war - ships of the sky retreat to the hills again , and back down to the hori- zon . The cannonading has ceased ; and they are silent ...
... nature will be in an uproar . But " presto , change ! " and lo ! the clouds are parted , and swift the war - ships of the sky retreat to the hills again , and back down to the hori- zon . The cannonading has ceased ; and they are silent ...
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... nature . Incomparable , language fails to describe it ; words seem beggarly ! It is not within the ken of the finite mind to under- stand or to comprehend its whys or its wherefores . It is a mystery - this awful , terrible , madly ...
... nature . Incomparable , language fails to describe it ; words seem beggarly ! It is not within the ken of the finite mind to under- stand or to comprehend its whys or its wherefores . It is a mystery - this awful , terrible , madly ...
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... Nature's beauties or wonders . " The perfection of atmosphere and of scene are surely just here , " you say . In the rainy season , more particularly , all nature takes on its " high lights " of color - the never - ending shades and ...
... Nature's beauties or wonders . " The perfection of atmosphere and of scene are surely just here , " you say . In the rainy season , more particularly , all nature takes on its " high lights " of color - the never - ending shades and ...
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... natural wonders the islands contain . At the back of Kapoho , on the foothills of the mountain , is an an- cient lava ... nature , for instead of flowing on after surround- ing the base of these trees it coiled itself round their trunks ...
... natural wonders the islands contain . At the back of Kapoho , on the foothills of the mountain , is an an- cient lava ... nature , for instead of flowing on after surround- ing the base of these trees it coiled itself round their trunks ...
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Página 204 - Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place.
Página 107 - To you, in David's town, this day Is born, of David's line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ; And this shall be the sign : — 4 " The heavenly babe you there shall find To human view displayed, All meanly wrapped in swathing bands, And in a manger laid.
Página 84 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Página 27 - Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Página 49 - I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Página 145 - I gazed — and gazed — but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought : For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude ; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Página 114 - THE time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid ; the night is still ; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voices of four hamlets round, From far and near, on mead and moor, Swell out and fail, as if a door Were shut between me and the sound : Each voice four changes on the wind, That now dilate, and now decrease, Peace and goodwill...
Página 204 - And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Página 4 - In every work regard the writer's End, Since none can compass more than they intend ; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spight of trivial faults, is due. As men of breeding, sometimes men of wit, T...
Página 30 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...