Helen of the Glen: A Tale for YouthJ.V. Pierce, 1843 - 100 pages |
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Bible blood bosom brother carabine charac Christian comfort companions conscience countenance cruel darkness daughter dear death districts of Scotland dwelling eternal everlasting love faithful Father in heaven fear forget friends Glasgow glen gracious hand happy hath hear heard heart heath hell holy hope instructions irreligion Jesus Christ kind advices king of terrors lamb liam look Lord minister minister of religion morning mother mountains ness never forsake night old farmer orphans peace persecution piety pious pray prayer Redeemer religion religious conversation remember Sabbath salvation Scotland servant shepherd sinner sins sister soldier soul stood stream surgeon sweet sword tear tempest tender tender mercy thee Thomson thou thought threw tremble trust unto utter voice walk weeping wept wicked widow of Cleughhead wild wild thyme William crossed words wrath Wrathburn young reader
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Page 3 - And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Page 25 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Page 60 - The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered : he openeth his eyes, and he is not. 20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Page 49 - He brings, and round about him ; nor from Hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place : now Conscience wakes Despair That slumbered ; wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue.
Page 3 - ONE there is, above all others, Well deserves the name of Friend ; His is love beyond a brother's, Costly, free, and knows no end.
Page 68 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness : and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness ; and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn : they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 16 - With greensward gay, and flowers that strangers seem Amid the heathery wild, that all around Fatigues the eye : in solitudes like these Thy persecuted children, Scotia, foiled A tyrant's and a bigot's bloody laws...
Page 89 - He hath seen the king in his beauty, and the land that is afar off...
Page 16 - In gentle stream; then rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise. The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint; The solitary place was glad, And on the distant cairns the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note.
Page 91 - For over it the wind doth pass, and it away is gone; And of the place where once it was it shall no more be known.