. St. Nicholas [serial]. the rigging and dark shadows harm betides us, for Fathers hand guides usAnd pilots us safely out over the bar,Out past the harbor light, into the velvet night—Me his sheet-anchor and you his lodestar. Sleep, little weary one, drowsy wee sailor-lass,Shore winds are lost in the voice of the sea; Waves babbling oer and oer follow us evermore,Weaving strange melodies, darling, for through the night comes the sound of theirsinging, The golden moon floating down softly to hear,And while sleep shall hold thee and darknessenfold thee, The wind and the waves cr
. St. Nicholas [serial]. the rigging and dark shadows harm betides us, for Fathers hand guides usAnd pilots us safely out over the bar,Out past the harbor light, into the velvet night—Me his sheet-anchor and you his lodestar. Sleep, little weary one, drowsy wee sailor-lass,Shore winds are lost in the voice of the sea; Waves babbling oer and oer follow us evermore,Weaving strange melodies, darling, for through the night comes the sound of theirsinging, The golden moon floating down softly to hear,And while sleep shall hold thee and darknessenfold thee, The wind and the waves croon thy lullaby, dear. Closed are thy sea-blue eyes, lids like white but-terflies Folded down quietly over two fays haunt thee, and mermaids enchantthee With dream-music, murmuring low through thehours. The wind lifts its wings and the sail fills abovethee— The sound doth not stir thee, profound is thysleep. God keep my sailors child, stilling the waterswild, Rocking her cradle far out on the deep! 978. OUT PAST THE HARBOR LIGHT, INTO THE VELVET NIGHT KIT, PAT, AND A FEW BOYS By BETH B. GILCHRIST Author of Cinderellas Granddaughter SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALMENTS Katherine Embury is a sophisticated, rather blase girl, who belongs to one of those touch-and-go families thatsee very little of each other. By a series of coincidences, she finds herself in surroundings utterly strange to herexperience, with the Wards, a family that is very much of a family. The spectacle of Phil and Pat and the rest onsuch intimate, friendly terms with each other surprises Katherine, and in the loneliness of her first sleepless nightat Birch Camp she writes a letter to her brother Don, summering on a ranch in Wyoming. But though everythingis new to her, Katherine takes to camp life like the sportswoman she is,—morning dips, cooperative cooking, foresttramps, and the like,—and wins the respect and admiration of the Wards. Dons reply to her letter tells of hisapproaching departur
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