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Updated: May 29, 2025
Which has not taught weak wills how much they can? Which has not fall'n on the dry heart like rain? Which has not cried to sunk, self-weary man: Thou must be born again!" THURSDAY, December 5. We reached Shanghai Thursday morning, and found excellent accommodations at the Astor House, in the American settlement.
At this he hurl'd his huge limbs out of bed, And shook his drowsy squire awake and cried, 'My charger and her palfrey'; then to her, 'I will ride forth into the wilderness; For tho' it seems my spurs are yet to win, I have not fall'n so low as some would wish.
Having reached the logical end of the first and last speech ever made in public by Captain Tonkins, the Captain tumbled out of his sleigh, and sprawled upon the snow; whereat the bystanders shouted for joy, and the widow Slapman and two large windows full of guests shook with laughter. "'S pla-at-form fall'n'?" asked the Captain.
'O gentlest of beasts of prey, said the wolf, 'I deem thee too faithful to leave me in this pit. Then he wept and sighed and recited the following verses, whilst the tears streamed from his eyes: O thou, whose kindnesses to me are more than one, I trow, Whose bounties unto me vouchsafed are countless as the sand, No shift of fortune in my time has ever fall'n on me, But I have found thee ready still to take me by the hand.
Now El Mutelemmis was a renowned poet: so he answered her with the following verse: Right near at hand, Umeimeh! Know, whene'er the caravan Halted, I never ceased for thee with longing heart to pine. When the bridegroom heard this, he guessed how the case stood and went forth from among them in haste, repeating the following verse: I was in luck, but now I'm fall'n into the contrary.
Men of England, Heirs of Glory, Heroes of unwritten story, Nurslings of one mighty mother, Hopes of her, and one another! Rise, like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fall'n on you. Ye are many, they are few.
That shall be try'd; go to the Place where Charles has directed you, and do as I command you. Servants. Oh, sweet Diana, in whom I had plac'd my absolute Delight, And gave thee to this Villain, because I wish'd thee happy. And are my Expectations fall'n to this? Upon his Wedding Night to abandon thee, And shew his long dissembled natural Leudness! Char.
Every one who has any sense for these things feels the subtle turn, the heightening, which is given to a poet's verse by his genius for style. We can feel it in the "After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well" of Shakespeare; in the "... though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues" of Milton.
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