The Continental First[-fifth] Reader, Band 3

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Seite 106 - all day like a foot-ball, and it will be round and full at evening. Oliver W. Holmes. CHILDHOOD. The tear down childhood's cheek that flows Is like the dew-drop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by
Seite 207 - watched and waited; Wolves in the forest, and bears in the bush, And I on my path belated. The rain and the night together Came down, and the wind came after, Bending the props of the pine-tree roof, And snapping many a rafter. I crept along in the darkness..,
Seite 155 - MY TRUST. A picture memory brings to me : I look across the years and see Myself beside my mother's knee. I feel her gentle hand restrain My selfish moods, and know again A child's blind sense of wrong and pain. But wiser now, a man gray grown, My childhood's needs are better
Seite 207 - the roof, in the pitch-black night, And the wind in the woods is roaring! Hush, my darling, and listen, Then pay for the story with kisses ; Father was lost in the pitch-black night, In just such a storm as this is ! High up on the lonely mountains, "Where the
Seite 123 - And whichever way it may blow, I meet it face to face, As a brave man meets his foe. And feeds me with his hands; For he knows who makes him thrive, Who makes him lord of lands. On Sundays, I take my rest; Church-going
Seite 107 - I find the great thing in this life is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Oliver
Seite 107 - content. My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Not decked with diamonds, and Indian stones, Not to be seen; my crown is called content; A crown it is that seldom

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