Family Memorials in Prose and Verse: Including Selections from the Writings of Theo. J. Elmore, and the History and Genealogy of the Elmore Family, with Biographical Sketches and Extracts from Their Writings

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Morning News Print., 1880 - 340 oldal

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160. oldal - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole
32. oldal - Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.
243. oldal - And let us not be weary in well-doing ; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
165. oldal - We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime.
69. oldal - She doeth little kindnesses, Which most leave undone, or despise ; For naught that sets one heart at ease, And giveth happiness or peace, Is low-esteemed in her eyes.
155. oldal - The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets Before we reach the heavenly fields, Or walk the golden streets. 5 Then let our songs abound, And every tear be dry ; We're marching through Immanuel's ground To fairer worlds on high.
257. oldal - IF I were told that I must die to-morrow, That the next sun Which sinks should bear me past all fear and sorrow For any one, All the fight fought, all the short journey through, What should I do ? I do not think that I should shrink or falter, But just go on, Doing my work, nor change nor seek to alter Aught that is gone ; But rise and move and love and smile and pray For one more day. And, lying down at night for a last sleeping, Say in that ear Which hearkens ever : ' ' Lord, within thy keeping...
210. oldal - Look aloft," from the darkness and dust of the tomb, To that soil where affection is ever in bloom. And oh! when death comes in his terrors, to cast His fears on the future, his pall on the past, In that moment of darkness, with hope in thy heart And a smile in thine eye, "look aloft,
235. oldal - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, — The son of parents passed into the skies!
331. oldal - Hearts at the sound of thy coming are lightened ; Ready and willing thy hand to relieve ; Many a face at thy kind words has brightened — "It is more blessed to give than receive.

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