The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16Atlantic Monthly Company, 1865 |
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Page 404 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 374 - Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you REST.
Page 619 - This species infests a great variety of plants, and is to be found throughout our country from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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Page 390 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Page 411 - And Paul said; I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Page 391 - In these brave ranks I only see the gaps. Thinking of dear ones whom the dumb turf wraps Dark to the triumph which they died to gain : Fitlier may others greet the living, For me the past is unforgiving ; I with uncovered head Salute the sacred dead, Who went, and who return not. — Say not so T is not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way...
Page 449 - But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious : long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. 16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me : give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Page 273 - He taught us little ; but our soul Had felt him like the thunder's roll. With shivering heart the strife we saw Of passion with eternal law ; And yet with reverential awe We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which served for that Titanic strife.
Page 387 - Something to live for here that shall outlive us, — Some more substantial boon Than such as flows and ebbs with Fortune's fickle moon ? The little that we see From doubt is never free ; The little that we do Is but...