Primary Education, Volume 26

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Educational Publishing Company, 1918
 

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Page 572 - We dropped the seed o'er hill and plain, Beneath the sun of May, And frightened from our sprouting grain The robber crows away.
Page 285 - I'm as great as they, I trow, Since the day I found thee out, Little flower, I'll make a stir, Like a sage astronomer. Modest, yet withal an elf Bold, and lavish of thyself : Since we needs must first have met, I have seen thee, high and low, Thirty years or more, and yet 'Twas a face I did not know ; Thou hast now, go where I may, Fifty greetings in a day.
Page 310 - Poets; in this little town of yours , You put to death, by means of a Committee, The ballad-singers and the Troubadours, The street-musicians of the heavenly city, The birds , who make sweet music for us all In our dark hours , as David did for Saul.
Page 195 - Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by Her, boy, as you would stand by your mother, if those devils there had got hold of her to-day...
Page 85 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 49 - My native country! thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills, .Like that above.
Page 8 - Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives; Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite; And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
Page 606 - Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 149 - In his bed at night. Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men ; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather!
Page 472 - THE days are cold, the nights are long, The north- wind sings a doleful song ; Then hush again upon my breast ; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty Love...

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