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Describing the on-coming of the dissolution of all things, he says: “No sun in radiant glory shines on high; No light but from the terrors of the sky.” And again, speaking of great armies: “Whose rear lay wrapt in night, while breaking dawn Rous’d the broad front, and call’d the battle on.” And this wail of the lost souls is fine: “And this for sin? Could I offend if I had never been?
Then, when the moon shines on it and then on the water why, don't you think, Uncle George, you would rather look at Slieve Nagorna, with the snow on him and the moon touching his forehead, and the path of silver on the water, than than be just comfortable?" "I don't see why I should not have both," said Mr. Now, please tell me what your letter means." "Do you really want me to tell you now?"
It was in New York and some of the inferior streets of Boston that I saw this process in its completeness. If the morning drives are extended beyond the city there is much to delight the eye. The trees are cased in ice; and when the sun shines out suddenly the whole scene looks like one diffused rainbow, dressed in a brilliancy which can hardly be conceived of in England.
Delano began to make arrangements for passing the summer at Newport; but her plans were suddenly changed. One morning Flora wished to purchase some colored crayons to finish a drawing she had begun. As she was going out, her friend said to her, "The sun shines so brightly, you had better wear your veil."
And this is in the night: most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and fair delight A portion of the tempest and of thee! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth!
However, I suppose all must live, so we will let them have what we leave; I shall help myself after they have stored it up in yonder barn." "You had better do as we do, and make hay while the sun shines," said the red squirrel. "I would rather play in the sunshine, and eat what I want here," said idle Velvet-paw, setting up her fine tail like a feather over her back, as she ate an ear of corn.
Through the whole of this piece, and the Seven before Thebes, there gushes forth a warlike vein; the personal inclination of the poet for a soldier's life, shines throughout with the most dazzling lustre.
As the moon shines pure and clear in a muddy pool, so Christ shone here in this muddy, filthy world, without the serene lustre of His purity being ever dimmed or soiled. And so we may shine in our poor human way now, but perfectly later on. It was my privilege lately in crossing the Atlantic, to witness one of those glorious sunsets, which once seen can never be forgotten.
Then she laughs, and after her laugh she's tender again, and says she loves me, though still maintaining I didn't know what I was talking about! "And in the visions there are times when Katie is very quiet. So still. Hushed by the wonder of love. Then Katie's laughing eyes are deep with mystery, Katie's face seems melted to pure love, and from it shines the light that makes life noble.
You may have heard the rhyme: 'The Ram, the Bull, the Heavenly Twins, And next the Crab, the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, The Fish with glittering tails. This puts in a form easy to remember the signs of the constellations which lie in the Zodiac, an imaginary belt across the whole heavens.
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