The Days of a man v. 1, Volume 1World Book Company, 1922 |
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Página 73 - ... crags With Freedom's image and name. Up ! and the dusky race That sat in darkness long, — Be swift their feet as antelopes, And as behemoth strong. Come, East and West and North, By races, as snow-flakes, And carry my purpose forth, Which neither halts nor shakes. My will fulfilled shall be, For, in daylight or in dark, My thunderbolt has eyes to see His way home to the mark VOLUNTARIES.
Página 117 - We buried him from the chapel that stands among the college elms. The students laid a wreath of laurel on his bier, and their manly voices sang a requiem. For he had been a student all his life long, and when he died he was younger than any of them.
Página 331 - I only know, should thou and I, Through its gray walls of crumbling stone Together wander, all alone, No spot on earth could be more fair Than ivy-covered Viverols! No grass be greener anywhere, No bluer sky or softer air Than we should find in Viverols, Together find in Viverols. Love, we may wander far or near, The sun shines bright o'er Viverols; Green is the grass, the skies are clear, No cloud obstructs our pathway, dear; Where love is, there is Viverols — There is no other Viverols!
Página 111 - Even the careless heart was moved, And the doubting gave assent, With a gesture reverent, To the Master well-beloved. As thin mists are glorified By the light they cannot hide, All who gazed upon him saw, Through its veil of tender awe, How his face was still uplit By the old sweet look of it. Hopeful, trustful, full of cheer, And the love that casts out fear. Who the secret may declare Of that brief, unuttered prayer ? Did the shade before him come Of th...
Página 656 - There has never been a just one, never an honorable one— on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful— as usual— will shout for the war. The pulpit will— warily and cautiously— object— at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, "It is unjust and...
Página 137 - Let me, who have not any child to die, Weep with you for the little one whose love I have known nothing of.
Página 656 - The loud little handful— as usual — will shout for the war. The pulpit will — warily and cautiously — object— at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, (WAR) "It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.
Página 198 - Underlying that formation are the Keokuk shales, remarkable for their wealth of geodes, concretions of quartz usually about six inches through but varying in size from that of a cherry to that of a big pumpkin; these are found in all the local streams which have cut down through the limestone. A 1 I am informed that Professor Hall's book is about to be reprinted by an Eastern house, as a contribution to our knowledge of American pioneer life.
Página 73 - God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Think ye I made this ball A field of havoc and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the weak and poor?
Página 656 - It is unjust and dishonorable and there is no necessity for it ! ' Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen and at first will have a hearing and be applauded, but it will not last long ; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing, the speakers stoned from the platform and free speech strangled by hordes of furious...