The Autobiography of a MindCentury Company, 1925 - 339 páginas |
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Página 71 - He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!
Página 225 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 98 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled. And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Página 45 - REJOICE for a brother deceased ; Our loss is his infinite gain : A soul out of prison released, And free from its bodily chain : With songs let us follow his flight, And mount with his spirit above, Escaped to the mansions of light, And lodged in the Eden of love.
Página 7 - No more firing was heard at Brussels — the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city : and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart.
Página 46 - There all the ship's company meet Who sailed with the Saviour beneath, With shouting each other they greet, And triumph o'er trouble and death : The voyage of life's at an end, The mortal affliction is past ; The age that in heaven they spend, For ever and ever shall last.
Página 318 - What is love of one's land? . . . I don't know very well. It is something that sleeps For a year — for a day — For a month — something that keeps Very hidden and quiet and still And then takes The quiet heart like a wave, The quiet brain like a spell, The quiet will Like a tornado ; and that shakes The whole of the soul.
Página 46 - O that without a lingering groan I may the welcome word receive ; My body with my charge lay down, And cease at once to work and live...
Página 16 - Paul, that when he was a child, he spake as a child, he understood as a child, he thought as a child ; but when he became a man, he put away childish things.
Página 227 - Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.