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She may wear muslin from Greenland's icy mountains, and bombazeen from Injy's coral strands, if she wants to; but I'm glad to state that that superior woman has peeled off all her furrin clothes and jumpt into fabrics of domestic manufactur. But, says sum folks, if you stop importin' things you stop the revenoo. That's all right. We can stand it if the Revenoo can.
And she knew Bishop Heber's beautiful poem to his wife all by heart, and often sang "From Greenland's icy mountains." So she had a feeling that she did know something about India. But Mrs. French had really been there, and spent two months at Bombay, and almost six months at Calcutta.
I shut them and began repeating cooling rhymes, such as 'twin peaks snow clad, 'From Greenland's Icy Mountains, and the 'Frozen North, by way of living up to Professor James' teachings. Whiskers was ambling on, half-stupefied with the heat, as I was, when from the road just in front came a peculiar sound.
'From Greenland's icy mountains to Ceylon's sunny isle, Whereever prospect pleases, And only man is vile. you shall nearly always hear the vile ones calling the humble tuber of their mid-day meal by some term akin to potato, and the subtle weed that companions their meditations, by some word like tobacco.
In fact, a nervous Tuesday followed a nervous Monday. My reader must remember that we were in the tropics, with a blazing sun looking down on us with an intensity that made one long for Greenland's icy mountains to cool us. We went into the public park for our last consultation before our fortune, which never came, was to come.
The hymns of Luther are among the most valued of his various works. "From Greenland's icy mountains" that sacred lyric shall live as long as the "Elegy in a Country Church-yard," or the "Cotter's Saturday Night," yea, shall survive the "Night Thoughts," and the "Course of Time." There is nothing in Grecian or Roman poetry that fills the place of the psalmody of the early church.
"From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand. From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain." Those are beautiful verses, and they have remained in my memory all my life.
Helen, with the shadows of the leaves playing across her hymn-book, leaned against the high back of the pew behind her, and sang in a strong, sweet voice, rejoicing in the rolling old tune of "Greenland's icy mountains."
"You know that capes have a queer way of sticking out suddenly from land, just as men's noses stick out from their faces." "True, Benjy, true, but your simile is not perfect, for men's noses don't always stick out from their faces witness the nose of Butterface, which, you know, is well aft of his lips and chin. However, this may be Greenland's nose who knows? We shall go and find out ere long.
And do you not think that God will hold the nations of Europe to a strict account for this villainy that marks the closing decade of the nineteenth century as the blackest page in human history? God will surely avenge Armenia, and woe to Europe when He treads the wine-press of His wrath!" As Will offered no reply, the discussion closed. Greenland's Icy Mountains and the Russian Bear.
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