From the plough-tail to the college steps: being the first twenty-nine years of the life of a Suffolk farmer's boy (J.M.).Hamilton, Adams, and Company, 1885 - 166 pàgines |
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Pàgina 142 - As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime: 'Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.
Pàgina 9 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Pàgina 50 - And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
Pàgina 21 - What doth the poor man's son inherit ? A patience learned of being poor. Courage, if sorrow come, to bear it, A fellow-feeling that is sure To make the outcast bless his door; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.
Pàgina 161 - This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.
Pàgina 109 - Tis the sublime of man, Our noontide majesty, to know ourselves Parts and proportions of one wondrous whole '. This fraternises man, this constitutes Our charities and bearings. But 'tis God Diffused through all, that doth make all one whole...
Pàgina 31 - In yonder cot, along whose mouldering walls In many a fold the mantling woodbine falls, The village matron kept her little school, Gentle of heart, yet knowing well to rule; Staid was the dame, and modest was her mien...
Pàgina 55 - First in the field before the reddening sun, Last in the shadows when the day is done, Line after line, along the bursting sod, Marks the broad acres where his feet have trod ; Still, where he treads, the stubborn clods divide, The smooth, fresh furrow opens deep and wide...
Pàgina 9 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rain-bow in the sky ! • So was it, when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So let it be, when I grow old, Or let me die.
Pàgina 40 - What doth the poor man's son inherit? Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, A hardy frame, a hardier spirit ; King of two hands, he does his part In every useful toil and art; A heritage, if seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.