The boatman of the Bosphorus, Volum 3;Volum 410

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Pàgina 147 - FOUNTAINS. THERE are three stars in the heaven's blue deep, And brightly they shine, though silently ; On the plain three silver fountains leap : And there stood beside them ladies three, — A wife, a widow, a virgin maid ; And thus to the rippling streams they said. The wife hung over the fount, and there Pour'd from her hand its waters clear : " Wave of the fountain ! counsel me : Do I a husband's love possess ; Will fondness and fidelity Bring me the flowers of happiness...
Pàgina 120 - ... territories dispeopled, or thinly inhabited; goodly cities made desolate ; sumptuous buildings become ruins, glorious temples either subverted or prostituted to impiety; true religion discountenanced and oppressed ; all nobility extinguished; no light of learning permitted, nor virtue cherished ; violence and rapine insulting over all, and leaving no security save to an abject mind and unlooked-on poverty ; which calamities of theirs, so great and deserved, are to the rest of the world as threatening...
Pàgina 135 - ... in povertie that they will dance while their legs will bear them, and sing till they grow hoarse: secured from the cares and fears that accompany riches.
Pàgina 49 - ... And lead them on to triumph. At the word A murmuring concert-tone of gladness spread, And loud eulogiums on their valiant lord ; For armies when by hero-monarchs led, Know no defeat. A sultan's self-drawn sword Flashes with victory. A chieftain brave Makes all his followers spurn the gaping grave. Then to the camp vast crowds of warriors throng, From every quarter summon'd. Shouts of joy And the gay music of the battle-song Bid the heart leap, and light the ebon eye. There young and old, children...

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