Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association, Volums 21-25

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Waltham Publishing Company, 1915
 

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Pàgina 19 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more...
Pàgina 53 - With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where, in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb...
Pàgina 21 - I cannot say — and I will not say That he is dead ... he is just away With a cherry smile and a wave of the hand He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there...
Pàgina 53 - God calls our loved ones, but we lose not wholly What He hath given ; They live on earth, in thought "and deed, as truly As in His heaven.
Pàgina 25 - Again a parting sail we see ; Another boat has left the shore. A kinder soul on board has she Than ever left the land before. And as her outward course she bends, Sit closer, friends...
Pàgina 36 - When I am dead and in my Grave, and all my bones are rotton, I hope the Lord will think on me when I am quite forgotten.
Pàgina 21 - CANNOT say, and I will not say That he is dead. — He is just away ! With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land, And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you — O you, who the wildest yearn For the old-time step and the glad return, — Think of him faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here : And loyal still, as he gave the blows Of his warrior-strength to his country's foes.
Pàgina 6 - Dana, in behalf of the Committee on Nominations, reported the following list of officers for the ensuing year: President — Herbert Griggs, Denver, Colorado.
Pàgina 11 - Bewildered in its search, Bewildered with the cry: Lo, here! lo, there, the Church! Poor, sad Humanity Through all the dust and heat Turns back with bleeding feet, By the weary road it came, Unto the simple thought By the great Master taught, And that remaineth still: Not he that repeateth the name, But he that doeth the will!
Pàgina 22 - Now, my dear Storg, you know my (what the phrenologists call) inhabitiveness and adhesiveness, how I stand by the old thought, the old thing, the old place, and the old friend, till I am very sure I have got a better, and even then migrate painfully. Remember the old Arabian story, and think how hard it is to pick up all the pomegranate-seeds of an opponent's argument, and how, as long as one remains, you are as far from the end as ever.

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