The Argosy, Volume 52Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood Strahan & Company, Magazine-Publishers, 1891 A magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems. |
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Page 476 - Amen : A second he took she departed what then ? He married and buried a third with Amen. Thus his joys and his sorrows were Treble but then His Voice was deep Bass as he sung out Amen. On the Horn he could blow as well as most men So his Horn was exalted in blowing Amen.
Page 27 - Comfort? comfort scorn'd of devils! this is truth the poet sings; That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
Page 476 - Thus his joys and his sorrows were Treble ; but then His voice was deep Bass as he sung out Amen ; On the Horn he could blow as well as most men, So his Horn was exalted in blowing Amen. But he lost all his Wind after three score and ten, And here with three wives he waits till again The trumpet shall rouse him to sing out Amen.
Page 479 - With heaping coals of fire upon his head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross the silver runs below. " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child half-weaned his heart from God ; (Child of his age) for him he liv'd in pain, And measur'd back his steps to earth again.
Page 476 - Clerk of this parish, and always proved himself a pious and mirthful man. The life of this clerk was just threescore and ten, During half of which time he had sung out "Amen.
Page 27 - Nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria." He recognized Dante's words from the Divine Comedy: there is no greater sorrow than to recall a time of happiness in misery.
Page 201 - ... go home. Then came the terrible part. By the time we were at our own door, it was dusk, and we went up the steps in the dark; but in the kitchen it was bright sunshine. My mother was standing at the dresser, breaking sugar; and she lifted me up, and set me in the sun, and gave me a bit of sugar.
Page 6 - ... find a paper written by me, which will tell you everything relating to your birth and history that it is needful for you to. know. The good father and Major Strickland will be your counsellors ; put yourself and your cause implicitly into their hands, and leave the rest to a Higher Power. Sweet one, I have now told you all that it is needful for you to know while I am still with you — all that my strength will allow me to say. We can be together but a brief while longer ; let us during that...
Page 27 - A glory from its being far, And orbs into the perfect star We saw not when we moved therein.
Page 87 - OH come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant; Oh come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem ; Come and behold Him born the King of angels ; Oh come, let us adore Him, Oh come, let us adore Him, Oh come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.