Said Christ our Lord, ‘I will go… How the men, my brethren, believe… He passed not again through the ga… But made himself known to the chil… Then said the chief priests, and r…

I know a falcon swift and peerless As e’er was cradled In the pine; No bird had ever eye so fearless, Or wing so strong as this of mine. The winds not better love to pilot

Guvener B. is a sensible man; He stays to his home an’ looks art… He draws his furrer ez straight ez… An’ into nobody’s tater-patch poke… But John P.

O poet! above all men blest, Take heed that thus thou store the… Love, Hope, and Faith shall ever… Sweet birds (upon how sweet a nest… Watchfully brooding o’er them.

O dwellers in the valley-land, Who in deep twilight grope and cow… Till the slow mountain’s dial-hand Shorten to noon’s triumphal hour, While ye sit idle, do ye think

O’€™er the wet sands an insect cre… Ages ere man on earth was known’€” And patient Time, while Nature sl… The slender tracing turned to ston… ‘€™T was the first autograph: and…

As one who, from the sunshine and… Enters the solid darkness of a cav… Nor knows what precipice or pit un… May yawn before him with its sudde… And, with hushed breath, doth ofte…

TO M.L. A lily thou wast when I saw thee… A lily-bud not opened quite, That hourly grew more pure and whi… By morning, and noontide, and even…

Beauty on my hearth-stone blazing! To-night the triple Zoroaster Shall my prophet be and master; To-night will I pure Magian be, Hymns to thy sole honor raising,

In the old days of awe and keen-ey… The Poet’s song with blood-warm t… He saw the mysteries which circle… The outward shell and skin of dail… Nothing to him were fleeting time…

God sends his teachers unto every… To every clime, and every race of… With revelations fitted to their g… And shape of mind, nor gives the r… Into the selfish rule of one sole…

Then Thorstein looked at Hakon, w… Mute as a cloud amid the stormy ha… And said: ‘O Skald, sing now an o… Such as our fathers heard who led… And, as the bravest on a shield is…

YES, faith is a goodly anchor; When skies are sweet as a psalm, At the bows it lolls so stalwart, In bluff, broad-shouldered calm. And when over breakers to leeward

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free; If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? Are ye not base slaves indeed,

Thy love thou sendest oft to me, And still as oft I thrust it back… Thy messengers I could not see In those who everything did lack, The poor, the outcast and the blac…