Dorothy; or Getting one's own way

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Page 36 - In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality; His great fires up the chimney roared; The stranger feasted at his board; But, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — "Forever — never! Never — forever!
Page 146 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times...
Page 160 - We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time.
Page 153 - Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Page 83 - Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
Page 83 - But ye must not hear him, Though 'tis hard for you To resist the evil, And the good to do.
Page 9 - Fierce, moody, patient, venturous, modest, shy ; Mad at their sports like withered leaves in winds; Though doing wrong and suffering, and full oft Bending beneath our life's mysterious weight Of pain...
Page 97 - Own words be duly said, That thou from sin and danger dread Delivered be to-day. The spirit dark that works within, Will whisper evil to thy heart, Will turn thee from the better part, And tempt thy soul to sin. Thou canst not tell what danger near, What sorrow never dreamed before, This one short day may have in store, What sudden pain or fear. As I have seen a boat go down In quiet waters suddenly, When not a wave was on the sea, Nor in the sky a frown.
Page 29 - ... daily sight ; Or when the child at mother's knee, His altar, lisps a prayer, And perfect faith, and utter love, And Christ Himself, is there ; Or when the little hands are clasp'd To beg some baby grace, And all the beauty of the dawn Comes rose-red o'er the face ; Or when some elder one from sport Her smaller sister wiles, And two bright heads o'ershade the book ; Half study, and half smiles.
Page 123 - Oh say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish ears are vain, That the young mind at random floats, And cannot reach the strain. Dim or unheard, the words may fall, And yet the heaven-taught mind May learn the sacred air, and all The harmony unwind.

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