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... tree near the porch ! That tree must have stood sentinel over the green hillocks , the monuments , and the tombstones , for hundreds of years . Beneath its wide - spread branches must have been borne , on the bier , the infant of days ...
... tree near the porch ! That tree must have stood sentinel over the green hillocks , the monuments , and the tombstones , for hundreds of years . Beneath its wide - spread branches must have been borne , on the bier , the infant of days ...
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... As I proceed along the fields a valley lies be- fore me , the murmuring of a rivulet reaches my ear , and yonder stands an aged oak - tree , ivy - clad to its topmost branches . This is a pleasant place A COUNTRY RAMBLE .
... As I proceed along the fields a valley lies be- fore me , the murmuring of a rivulet reaches my ear , and yonder stands an aged oak - tree , ivy - clad to its topmost branches . This is a pleasant place A COUNTRY RAMBLE .
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... tree , making a noise like the shaking of small pebbles together ; and a score or two of rooks are winging their way to their nests in the high elm trees of a dis- tant rookery . Such a scene as this is dear to those who 6 A COUNTRY RAMBLE ...
... tree , making a noise like the shaking of small pebbles together ; and a score or two of rooks are winging their way to their nests in the high elm trees of a dis- tant rookery . Such a scene as this is dear to those who 6 A COUNTRY RAMBLE ...
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... tree , are clothed with the freshest leaves ; and the face of the lake , ruffled by the breeze , is giving back the sunbeam from ten thousand glittering waves . Α Nor is the turfy margin of Virginia Water unpeopled . A few of my fellow ...
... tree , are clothed with the freshest leaves ; and the face of the lake , ruffled by the breeze , is giving back the sunbeam from ten thousand glittering waves . Α Nor is the turfy margin of Virginia Water unpeopled . A few of my fellow ...
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... trees . I have visited the cascade , the cave , and the Palmyra - like ruins ; the latter are now but a stone's cast from my feet . The scene is lovely , but the broken and disfigured sculpture , here and there , tells me that the place ...
... trees . I have visited the cascade , the cave , and the Palmyra - like ruins ; the latter are now but a stone's cast from my feet . The scene is lovely , but the broken and disfigured sculpture , here and there , tells me that the place ...
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Página 7 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 82 - Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Página 269 - Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Página 94 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Página 85 - And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited : and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Página 127 - FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee.
Página 75 - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked; the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Página 121 - In every stream his bounty flows, Diffusing joy and wealth; In every breeze his spirit blows, — The breath of life and health.
Página 35 - For the Lord is a great God, And a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth : The strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it : And his hands formed the dry land.
Página 196 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.