This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...Breathed out of the heart of the sky. And in dreams her light, swift footsteps Those infinite spaces trod; A fearless little explorer Of the paths that lead up to God. The darkness now was no dungeon, But a key into wide release; And the Night was a vision of freedom-A Presence of heavenly peace. And I doubt ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...Breathed out of the heart of the sky. And in dreams her light, swift footsteps Those infinite spaces trod; A fearless little explorer Of the paths that lead up to God. The darkness now was no dungeon, But a key into wide release; And the Night was a vision of freedom-A Presence of heavenly peace. And I doubt not that in like manner Might vanish, as with a breath, The gloom and the lonely terror Of the mystery we call Death. STARLIGHT. Mother, see! the stars are out, Twinkling all the sky about; Faster, faster, one by one, From behind the clouds they run. Are they hurrying forth to see Children watching them, like me? Oft I wonder, mother dear, Why so many stars appear Through the darkness every night, With their little speck of light: Hardly can a ray so small Brighten up the world at alL "Ah, you know not, little one, Every dim star is a sun To some planet-circle fair, In its far-off home of air: Rays that here so faint you call There in radiant sunshine fall. " I have sometimes wondered, too, (Scarcely wiser, dear, than you, ) Why unnumbered souls had birth On this wide expanse of earth; Wondered where the need was shown For so many lives unknown. "He who calls the stars by name, At his mighty word they came Out of heaven's deep light, to bless Life's remotest wilderness. Every soul may be a sun; You and I, too, little one!" WHAT THE TRAIN RAN OVER. 159 THE LAST FLOWER OF THE YEAR. The gentian was the year's last child, Born when the winds were hoarse and wild With wailing over buried flowers, The playmates of their sunnier hours. The gentian hid a thoughtful eye Beneath dark fringes, blue and shy, Only by wannest noon-beams won, To meet the welcome of the sun. The gentian, her long lashes through, Looked up into the sky so blue, And felt at...
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