Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . nd the memory ofyour boyish grief comes upon you; and you saywith tears, Poor Tray! And Bella too, in hersad sweet tones, says—Poor old Tray—he is dead! THE BUGLE SONG B^j Alfred Texxyson THE splendor falls on castle wallsAnd snowy summits old in story:The long light shakes across the lakes,And the wild cataract leaps in , bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear! how thin and clear. And thinner, clearer,
Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . nd the memory ofyour boyish grief comes upon you; and you saywith tears, Poor Tray! And Bella too, in hersad sweet tones, says—Poor old Tray—he is dead! THE BUGLE SONG B^j Alfred Texxyson THE splendor falls on castle wallsAnd snowy summits old in story:The long light shakes across the lakes,And the wild cataract leaps in , bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear! how thin and clear. And thinner, clearer, farther going!O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river:Or echoes roll from soul to grow for ever and for , bugle, blow, set the wild echoes answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. FROM THE IMITATION OFCHRIST By Thomas a Kempis OF FOLLOWING CHRIST AND DESPISING ALL WORLDLY VANITIES. ^UR Lord saith: he that followeth meMalketh not in darkness. These are the Avords of Christ inthe which we are admonished to followhis life and his manners if we wouldbe truly enlightened and be deliveredfrom all manner of blindness of let our chief study be upon the life ofJesus Christ. Sublime words make not a man holy and right-eous, but it is a virtuous life that maketh him dearto God. I desire rather to know compunction than its defi-nition. If thou knewest all the sayings of all thephilosophers, A\hat should that avail thee withoutcharity and giace? All other things in the world, save only to loveGod and serve him, are vanity of vanities and allvanity. And it is vanity also to desire honour and for aman to lift himself on high. And it is vanity to follow the desires of the fleshand to desire the thing for which man must after-ward grievously be pu
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