Osborne of Arrochar

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Lee and Shepard, 1890 - 449 ページ
 

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80 ページ - For contemplation he and valor formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him.
296 ページ - Ah wasteful woman ! — she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing he cannot choose but pay — How has she cheapen'd Paradise ! How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spill'd the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine !
172 ページ - Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." So sung a little Clod of Clay Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a Pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet: "Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to Its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
437 ページ - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee : Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
213 ページ - ... attention he listened to the remaining verses : " After childhood's winning ways, After care and blame and praise, Counsel asked and wisdom given After mutual prayers to heaven, Child and parent scarce regret When they part are strangers yet. " Will it evermore be thus, Spirit still impervious ? Shall we never fairly stand Soul to soul and hand to hand ? Are the bonds eternal set To retain us strangers yet ? " "Absurdly impossible," was Stephen's comment at the end.

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