HawaiiC.A. Murdock & Company, 1893 - 254 páginas |
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... wonderful work of the storm - and think it is the fairest , freshest , daintiest world ' their eyes ever beheld in all their wanderings ! " The rain is o'er - how dense and bright Yon pearly clouds reposing lie ! Cloud above cloud , a ...
... wonderful work of the storm - and think it is the fairest , freshest , daintiest world ' their eyes ever beheld in all their wanderings ! " The rain is o'er - how dense and bright Yon pearly clouds reposing lie ! Cloud above cloud , a ...
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... wonderful phenomenon in 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 ...
... wonderful phenomenon in 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 ...
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... wonderful cane - producing country to your mental vision - this land where the people are " fed on the finest of wheat and honey , " and with sweetest of water " out of the stony rock " —this “ land of pomegranates and of oil olive ...
... wonderful cane - producing country to your mental vision - this land where the people are " fed on the finest of wheat and honey , " and with sweetest of water " out of the stony rock " —this “ land of pomegranates and of oil olive ...
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... wonderful wonder of a country , with its magnificently magnificent waterfalls , not to speak of its million and one exquisitely exquisite smaller ones , and all the way down to the tiniest tiny - its very loveliest loves of rainbows ...
... wonderful wonder of a country , with its magnificently magnificent waterfalls , not to speak of its million and one exquisitely exquisite smaller ones , and all the way down to the tiniest tiny - its very loveliest loves of rainbows ...
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... wonderful change the night had wrought . With rapturous joy his bosom swelled As the glorious image his eyes beheld ; And there on the wall just over his head , In letters of gold , these words he read : ' When the workman hath wrought ...
... wonderful change the night had wrought . With rapturous joy his bosom swelled As the glorious image his eyes beheld ; And there on the wall just over his head , In letters of gold , these words he read : ' When the workman hath wrought ...
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ALOHA NUI beautiful Bishop boys bread brown Cathedral Chinese Christmas Church climate clouds cocoanut color Consul crater England English eyes Father feet ferns fish flowers foreigners fruit Government Building grounds Haleakala hath Hawaii Hawaii Ponoi Hawaiian Islands hear heart hills Hilo holoku Honolulu Postoffice horses Iao Valley Iolani Iolani Palace Jesus John Kalakaua Kamehameha Kamehameha IV Kauai Kilauea King street Kingdom Kona Lahaina land Laupahoehoe lava leaves Levuka light Lihue Liliuokalani look magnificent Maui miles Mill Minister Molokai morning mountain native nature never night Niihau Nuuanu Oahu Office Palace perfect Plantation prayer pretty Provisional Government rain Ring road royal Royal Hawaiian Band sail Samuel Parker San Francisco seems seen ship sing steamer sugar Sunday taro things thou trees unto valleys veranda vessels Volcano wail Wailuku Waiohinu wonderful
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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...