Shadows: Love StoryDodd, Mead and Company, 1917 - 393 páginas |
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Página 294 - ... worshipful woman, but they loved one better than another ; and worship in arms may never be foiled, but first reserve the honour to God, and secondly the quarrel must come of thy lady : and such love I call virtuous love.
Página 320 - You will we hate with a lasting hate, We will never forgo our hate, Hate by water and hate by land, Hate of the head and hate of the hand, Hate of the hammer and hate of the crown, Hate of seventy millions, choking down. We love as one, we hate as one, We have one foe, and one alone— ENGLAND...
Página 320 - Take you the folk of the Earth in pay, With bars of gold your ramparts lay, Bedeck the ocean with bow on bow, Ye reckon well, but not well enough now. French and Russian they matter not, A blow for a blow, a shot for a shot, We fight the battle with bronze and steel, And the time that is coming Peace will seal. You...
Página 320 - Bedeck the ocean with bow on bow, ^e reckon well, but not well enough now. French and Russian they matter not, A blow for a blow, a shot for a shot, We fight the battle with bronze and steel, And the time that is coming Peace will seal. YOU will we hate with a lasting hate, We will never forego our hate, Hate by water and hate by land.
Página 181 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would we not shatter it to bits— and then Remould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Página 332 - The people of cities give money without feeling it, but it is the farmers' wives and daughters who make the sacrifices ; the materials are purchased by money earned by daily work; the time is taken out of the night's rest, and then, when the box is ready, they send it away to strangers, not knowing where it is to go, nor who it is that shall receive it. This is Faith, and it is human nature rising out of self — which is Christianity. Let us go into that house where a Soldiers...
Página 391 - ... sells, marries, and associates with his fellow-creatures, yet is never for a single moment forgetful of God." It is said that one of Abu Sa'id's favourite verses, forming part of an Arabic poem addressed by Kuthayyir to his beloved 'Azza, was this : — " I would answer thy voice did'st thou call me, though over my body lay Heavy the earth of the grave-yard, and my bones were crumbled away...
Página 102 - ... all sorts and conditions of men, in all sorts and conditions of trouble, should quicken their sympathies, their resolves to labour on for the gradual amelioration of the human lot.
Página 329 - He scribbled an order on a page of his notebook, tore it out and handed it to Desmond.
Página 113 - It would have been so much easier for all of us if my wife had stayed where I made a home for her instead of going back to Boston.