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The blood and tears which the Netherlanders caused to flow in their own stormy days have turned to blessings for remotest climes and ages.
"Thou art still an unbeliever, and a heretic. Beware, young woman! beware!" "Beware of what, good Father? why should I beware? Are there not millions in these climes more unbelieving, and more heretic, perhaps, than I? How many have you converted to your faith? What trouble, what toil, what dangers have you not undergone to propagate that creed and why do you succeed so ill?
Next morning, awakened by the sunbeams, I arose quite refreshed by the agreeable impressions of my dream, and filled with presages of future happiness in the climes which had inspired them. No other idea but such as Trinacria and Naples suggested, haunted me whilst travelling to Ghent.
You will take pleasure in seeing us follow in thought, even to the most distant climes, his ever victorious eagles.
While pondering these questions, the storm whose forewarnings I had neglected to heed burst forth with all the suddenness peculiar to the Australian climes. The rains descended like the rushing of floods. In the beds of watercourses, which, at noon, seemed dried up and exhausted, the torrents began to swell and to rave; the gray crags around them were animated into living waterfalls.
Bax came down on to the beach by the wooden steps that lead from the sea-wall where the grass grows between the stones. "Hullo!" she said, "hurt yourself, my Dora-dove?" Dora was rather a favourite of hers. "It's all right now," said Dora. "That's all right," said Mrs. Bax, who has learnt in anti-what's-its-name climes the great art of not asking too many questions. "Mrs.
Whatever chance or change be mine In other climes, 'neath foreign skies, Your love, your kindness, I shall hold Dearest amid dear memories. O eyes grown dim with falling tears! O lips where Sorrow lays her spell! The saddest task of all life's years Is yours to look and say farewell! LUCY H. HOOPER. AUGUSTIN'S, April 7, 1873.
Thus it runs: From distant climes, o'er widespread seas, we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum; True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good. No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal; And none will doubt, but that our emigration Has proved most useful to the British nation.
The acres were fairly covered with a second growth of redwood and a wealth of madroños and other native trees; but there were many spaces where Nature invited assistance, and my friend every year has planted trees of many kinds from many climes, until he has an arboretum hardly equaled anywhere.
She possessed all that soft delicacy of appearance that reminds the sterner sex how frail and dependent is woman, while she bore in her face that sweet and winning expression of intellect, that, in other climes more favored by civilization, and where cultivation adds so much to the charms of her sex, would alone have marked her as beautiful.
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