Blossomings in the Apple Country: A Memorial1874 |
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Annie Bell apple apple tree bereaved Bessie Betsy blessed Blossomings bright brother CHAPTER cheered CHILWORTH Christ cloud cold confidence dark death diligent dying earth faith father father's purse fatherless children fear foolish friends frost funeral gave girl gloom go to chapel God's gone grace Greet Mill grief happy heart heaven heavenly heroines heroism honeycomb hope imagination Jesus Josiah kind knew life's lightened little Martin living look Lord loved Margie meet memento memory mercy morning mother ness never night nurse old-fashioned saying orphans parents pathy pleasant postman prayer prejudice question remember reward Sabbath salvation scene seemed to say sense of loneliness sister smile Snowdon soon sorrow soul speak spent spirit spoke strong summer of 64 Sunday sure sympathy tence thing thought tion toil touch of nature touching uncle unto voice watchfulness widowed wisdom wise wonder young
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Page 46 - This languishing head is at rest — Its thinking and aching are o'er ; This quiet, immovable breast Is heaved by affliction no more ; This heart is no longer the seat Of trouble and torturing pain ; It ceases to flutter and beat — It never shall flutter again.
Page 34 - THE morning flowers display their sweets, And gay their silken leaves unfold; As careless of the noon-tide heats, As fearless of the evening cold. 2 Nipt by the wind's unkindly blast, Parch'd by the sun's directer ray, The momentary glories waste, The short-lived beauties die away.
Page 12 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 56 - Yet still to his footstool in prayer I may go, And ask for a share in his love ; And if I thus earnestly seek him below, I shall see him and hear him above...
Page 10 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 18 - When a few years are come, Then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Page 11 - To examine themselves, whether they repent them truly of their former sins, stedfastly purposing to lead a new life; have a lively faith in God's mercy through Christ, with a thankful remembrance of his death; and be in charity with all men.
Page 47 - Repose, Have strangely forgotten to weep: The Fountains can yield no Supplies, These Hollows from Water are free, The Tears are all wip'd from these Eyes, And Evil they never shall see.
Page 49 - ... flowers, that gave all the fragrance of summer, when summer was gone. Thus memory draws from delight, ere it dies, an essence that breathes of it many a year; thus bright to my soul, as 'twas then to my eyes, is that bower on the banks of the calm Bendcmeer.
Page 30 - his own bitterness ; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.