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If he listened to glorious music, the voice of Beatrice spoke to him through the notes; if he watched the clouds rolling in heavy pomp across a broken sky he thought of Beatrice; if some chance poem or novel moved him, why Beatrice was in his mind to share the pleasure.
He understood Christ, and so he became like him. We do not require the Liber Conformitatum to teach us that the life of St. Francis was the true Imitatio Christi, a poem compared to which the book of that name is merely prose. Indeed, that is the charm about Christ, when all is said: he is just like a work of art.
During their short residence at Spa he sketched the plan of an epic poem, on the discovery of Britain by the Prince of Tyre.
The Lord fitted the man who lived that life of faith and prayer, and wrote that life-story, to inspire confidence, so that even skeptics and doubters felt that they were reading, not a novel or a poem, but a history. Faith was the second of these central traits in George Muller, and it was purely the product of grace.
He was manly, modest, self-possessed; did not say much his usual talkativeness being restrained by the circumstances of the case, and the great impression made upon him by Miss Hilary, who, he afterward admitted to Elizabeth, "was a real angel, and he should write a poem upon her."
To find each week for reprint a poem appropriate in sentiment to the feeling of the paper. One of the "Salt Water Ballads" would do, or John Masefield singing of "the whale's way," or "Down to the white dipping sails;" or Rupert Brooke: "And in that heaven of all their wish.
"I daresay Keats had a Cockney accent, if we did but know; and I daresay a good many people never heard anything else." "I'm afraid you'd have heard it yourself, Miss Harden, if you'd met him." "Possibly. It isn't what I should have remembered him by, though. That reminds me. I came upon a poem a sonnet of yours if it was yours this morning. It was lying on the library floor.
I have not gone far in either; but I know I shall enjoy the fables, they are so delightfully written, and give such good lessons in a simple and yet attractive way. I do not think I have told you that my dear teacher is reading "The Faery Queen" to me. I am afraid I find fault with the poem as much as I enjoy it.
He proceeded to the university, about 1 o'clock, when he was again greeted with the hearty cheers of the citizens, as he passed the high-way, and when he arrived. The public performances on this occasion, were an oration and a poem. The latter was prepared at very short notice, and had particular reference to the visit of the illustrious hero and philanthropist, Lafayette.
Benedictus had followed the magnificent poem with rapture. At the lines, "But blessed are they who die doing Thy will; The second death can strike at them no blow,"
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